Doesn't make sense when you are tying the bowline one handed, as you should be able to do.
prv's method in post 19 is ideal for one handed tying.
They're the same method
Pete
What about the reef knot, I read somewhere that it isn't used much as it can come out, what would you use instead? I've never had to reef, just use mizzen and jib
Also use reef knot. On slippery synthetic it can be secured by putting half-hitches behind.What about the reef knot, I read somewhere that it isn't used much as it can come out, what would you use instead? I've never had to reef, just use mizzen and jib
http://www.troop471riomedina.org/surgeons_reef_knot.gif - Fisherman's http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/s9mbilan/fishermansknot.jpg When line is slippery, like fishing line - also may be secured with additional half-hithes, after pulling together.Those "methodes" above are presented everywhere, but they look like 'following the picture of knot' instead of tying it. Seems though that the easy way of tying the bowline got forgotten
I'm lacking the english names here but may try - and please somebody help:
first lay your hand on the standing part of line and twist to cross it - forming this first loop called "rabbit hole" here, but so that it forms around the hand or wrist;
with fingers take the standing part and pull through the "rabbit hole", in fact this looks like shaking the line off the hand. Don't tighten the resulting knot.
( - Now this a loop of line taken through 'hole' is actually the knot used to attach tackle hook (or whatever) to pull on the line when ends are inaccessible, or to attach this line to the post etc; but I have no English name for it, thence this long description; somebody could give the name, please? )
Now the bitter end is passed through this loop (a sufficiently long bit of it) and the line (standing part) is pulled - loop made is pulled back through, taking the bitter end with it, and voila - bowline is formed.
All this takes a fraction of a second, just a twist of hand and stick the bitter end in - then any pull on the line will make the bowline, for instance when this is mooring line thrown on a bollard.
Direction of twistind the hand might be important, as the knot may be made in both directions. It holds in both ways, but texbooks always show one way, so I presume the other is "wrong"
This is a method I learned almost 40 years ago as the right way, even was in some books then, but never saw it since...
Not the one; it's rather what was described before. One-handed method; we also teach it here, I always add to it "never use when you're man-over-board" 