Tying a flying bowline

[Rum_Pirate]

Can you do this (even after watching it 6 times?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESo9FZuIAHo&feature=related

 

[Blue5]

When you have figured it out can you post it in a diagramatic form so the rest of us can understand it.

 

[MoodySabre]

Here's a slower version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYu_hHGNtc&NR=1

 

[Blue5]

Ah thats better, SWMBO is smiling, I`ve just got the rope out

 

[gardenshed]

really simple when you get the knack. Trick is to use a long enough tail end so that it has the momentum to spin around all the other parts of the rope.

Once the flying bowline is mastered, try tying a normal bowline with one hand (useful in rough weather if you have to hold on and tie a bowline at the same time) or the double and triple bowlines: Double, not much use, triple, a good emergency harness/bosuns chair

 

[NealB]

It doesn't look like a 'traditional' bowline....might it be more likely to jam?

 

[Blue5]

It doesn't look like a 'traditional' bowline....might it be more likely to jam?

Well that was my concern but having tried it this morning on a tow rope for a car, so far no problem

 

[gandy]

It doesn't look like a 'traditional' bowline....might it be more likely to jam?

Its a different knot, or you could say its the same knot but the standing part and the free end reversed. Will it work as well under load?