A double bowline tied in seconds.

[cliffordpope]

I've been practising for the last 5 minutes, but all I can produce is a tightening noose. It's not helped by the OP saying start with palms down, but the U-tube man starts with palms up.
Anyone managed it?

 

[cliffordpope]

Ah ha just got it!. The end you flick has to wind around BOTH bits, not just the one in the right hand.
You need a good quality bendy but heavy rope, not a bit of nylon cord. I must do some work now, and try this at home later.

 

[rickp]

Yes, I've just got that - very neat. One for the next Wokingham pub meet.

Rick

 

[VicS]

You'll find the quick bowline and a bowline on the bight as well as the simple method and many other knots bends and hitches on Groggs animated knots website
Thats still not quite how i do a single handed bowline but more suited to heavier ropes perhaps.

 

[Dougie_the_Mate]

That is infuriating. So quick, but what does he do?

 

[cliffordpope]

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That is infuriating. So quick, but what does he do?

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You mean for a living? He's a knot trick demonstrator.

You hold the rope between your hands, palms UP, with the tail end of the rope on the right.
Twist both wrists inwards, so that the palms of the clenched hands are now facing DOWN, and you have a twist in the rope in each hand.
Flick the free end outwards and then back towards you over the top of the rope that is stretched between your hands. It must wind round BOTH the connecting portion AND the part in your left hand that is dangling by your feet.
Then pass the loop in your right hand through the loop in your left hand. Let go of the left hand loop, but pull the former right hand loop with your left hand while grapping the two trailing sections in your right.
It took me about 20 replays to spot it.

 

[trev]

Never heard of a double bowline, I was only aware of the normal bowline and the 'bowline on the bight' - the bend you are describing sounds like a normal bowline tied in the manner always used on board ships when tying a heaving line to a mooring line. I've been doing it this way for the past forty years.- or am I missing something ?

 

[mandarin]

Try this site animated knot tying and you can vary the speed of the animation.
http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com
us ditch crawlers use knots too
david
edited to say did not notice earlier Grog shortcut, heres another one
http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm

 

[Roberto]

yes that's the one !

Don't know why it should be called "double bowline", as imho it is neither double nor a bowline /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[Sy-Revolution]

Got it! can't wait to 'wow' the girls with this one! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif lol

 

[dur]

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Don't know why it should be called "double bowline

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There was a guy from (I think it's called) Falmouth Maritime College at the Beale Park show a few years back who showed me this knot. He was calling it an American Tugman's Bowline. A good name which befits the party status of the knot. Never used it in anger. I am not convinced it would come undone after a heavy loading but must try it some time.