Bowline

[Inselaffe]

From post on attaching sheets:

"You should be able to tie a bowline in about a second and a half max if you tie it the sailor's twist-wrist way and not the boy scouts rabbit-tree way." John_Wilson

Can someone tell me a link with pictures? Tried to Google but getting nowhere.

 

[pvb]

Never timed it, but seems quick enough either way.

 

[pampas]

Try this www.animatedknots.com /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Guest]

You mean the one handed version:

http://www.animatedknots.com/bowlineonehand/index.php

 

[Guest]

You win!

 

[Hunson]

Is that animation classed as a lefthanded knot or a right handed. I bought a book on knots only about £4 and compared to the the book my end goes from right to left and back down instead of left to right and down.

Pro or Cons.

 

[Inselaffe]

Thats the one, thanks

Just interested in another way of doing it.
Sad really.

I like the mirror on that page, good for us devils children /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MoodySabre]

That's alright for making a loop but I always use the slip-knot method for forming a bowline. Very quick and easy to make it round a bar or through a hole.

Don't know if it is animated anywhere but thoroughly recommend it for those allergic to rabbits and trees and up and round and bugger got it wrong.

Oh yes just found it:
http://www.aquafrolic.com/BowlineDoc.htm

 

[rickp]

Yup - thats the method I use. Very easy and can be done quite quickly too.

Rick

 

[Guest]

MoodySabre: That's cruel you broke the rabbits back. I'm sticking with my method: You only have to nudge it into the hole.

 

[ebbtide]

Now you have to do it behind your back while Brahms 'n Lizst with a penalty of buying the crew a round if you hesitate.

You don't arf larn quick!

 

[Pye_End]

Surely the tail should go back through the middle and should not on the outside?

 

[Petronella]

Very good animations and sequences for alternative ways tie a bowline.

However, one shows the end of the rope finishing outside the loop, the other has it inside the loop - that is they have gone round the standing part in opposite directions. Is one more correct than the other?

 

[pvb]

Dutch...

Believe it's called the "Dutch" version and, according to the Dutch Navy is more secure. If that means anything.

 

[BrokerBen]

Re: Dutch...

A single sheet bend is actually the same once tight as a Bowline /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif See if you can find an animation on that, but the sailor's method is designed around tieing one around yourself in the event of needing to be rescued, any sailor worth his salts I would say ought to be able to tie one behind his back with ease, or with eyes closed /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I do however know somebody who doesn't allow bowlines on their boat, as she says they're dangerous... but enough said about her and 'her ways' the better!

Ben

 

[damo]

The tail should go on the inside apparently.

And I won't mention my sig... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif