Use some wooden dowels and jute to practice your lashings before camp. Here are some tips on how to complete the Tripod Lashing

This knot will be used in many of your starts for your lashings along with rowing, small boat sailing, pioneering, and first class rank.

The two half-hitches is a type of knot, specifically a binding knot or hitch knot. It consists of an overhand knot tied around a post, followed by a half-hitch. Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part.

A Sheer Lashing is often used to bind adjacent poles together.