jimi
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Been so long, I’ve forgotten!!!
How do you tie a bowline?
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John 32i
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Looks like you will have a few more weeks to practice 
Plum
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So, in addition to practicing your knots while staying at home, what else can we do to maintain skills?
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jimi
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I’d just got the boat copper coated and new sail drive fitted and it was about to go back in water when lockdown happened. So got to put sails on and thoroughly test everything before we do anything. Haven’t been on boat for 5 months now.. longest time away for 20 years.
Seashoreman
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I know Grogs brother, he recommended this website years ago. Very useful I found.
I know Grogs brother, he recommended this website years ago. Very useful I found.
Fr J Hackett
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Here you go Jimi
get practicing.?Boating Knots
Then there's always the rabbit the tree and the hole to fall back on.
LONG_KEELER
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Tied a few in the shed when tidying up.
Tempted to practise bunker shots in some sand left over from the builders . A thin one might take out someones greenhouse though.
Tempted to practise bunker shots in some sand left over from the builders . A thin one might take out someones greenhouse though.
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fredrussell
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The rabbit comes out of the hole, gets spotted by a bunch of do-good-ers who grass him up to the police for ignoring current advice re staying at home, but he ignores them and goes round the tree and back down the hole again feeling defiant.
Later that day, a YBW lynch mob, having spotted him via his AIS (animal information system) turn up and excavate the hole, catch rabbit and eat him for his sins.
Later that day, a YBW lynch mob, having spotted him via his AIS (animal information system) turn up and excavate the hole, catch rabbit and eat him for his sins.
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Praxinoscope
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You beat me to it, this is how I learned to tie a bowline and still rememeber it by this.
LONG_KEELER
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You can make it.
Just consider poor Lt Hiro Onada .
He suffered nearly 30 years of lockdown on that island in the Philippines waiting for the order to surrender in WW2 .
He came home to a hero's welcome in Tokyo in 1974. You can too.
Sharky34
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The problem with that method, is which way do you arrange the rabbit hole, cos one way works, the other way doesn't.
The easy way I was shown, by a fisherman, is to take the tail end & hold it in line with the fingers of right hand, then place it at right angles over the line to form a loop.
Clutch this with your thumb holding the tail, then rotate your right hand clockwise. This then forms the correct rabbit hole, together with the rabbit already through.
Then around tree & back down rabbit hole. Can be done blind & quickly & one handed.
Robin
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notthis time but a fat shot in the living room once took a large carpet divot.
RichardS
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My rabbit always runs the wrong way around the tree and the bowline falls apart.
We need a way to remember which way the rabbit has to run.
Richard
john_morris_uk
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T been sharpening the irons had she?
tjbrace
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I was shown this method by a very experienced sailor. His name was Slocum but his first name was Jack not Joshua. Still use the method now.
mjcoon
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In our youth, I took my Queen's Guide cousin out sailing in my dinghy. She wanted to know where I had learnt to tie all those Guide-knots I was using...
Mike.
Mike.
tudorsailor
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The alternative and neat way is the slip knot bowline. Have a look here and ignore the stupid hat
TS
TS
penberth3
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With my eyes shut! But I couldn't start to describe it.
John the kiwi
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Hi Tudorsailor.
I learned to tie a bowline in cub s when i was 7 and had been tying them for 30 years and knew it all - until I went on a course and the instructor said " lets see you tie a tight bowline around your waist!"
The solution was your method which was a revelation to me. (Since this predated star wars it wasnt called the Jedi method though.)
I learned to tie a bowline in cub s when i was 7 and had been tying them for 30 years and knew it all - until I went on a course and the instructor said " lets see you tie a tight bowline around your waist!"
The solution was your method which was a revelation to me. (Since this predated star wars it wasnt called the Jedi method though.)
DJE
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