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With the video, I prefer the table top version.The around the body style has the opportunity to tighten on your hand or wrist if the line is pulled from above too early, sometimes causing damage to the limb.
The bowline can be under load and then usually easily untied. as is not the case with other types of knots which sometimes become knife knots as that is the only thing to loosen them.
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Most kont advice suggests securing the free end of the line with a couple of half hitches.
As memory serves I saw this variation in a British climbing publication maybe 40 years ago, but I have not been able to find reference to it since. Hence, I am now referring to it as "Jim's Bowline". At least, until some lawyer sends me a cease and desist letter.
Jim
Pictures speak for themselves:
Thank you Knotty! Love to learn knots, but am not instinctively good at them. Really appreciate the perspective on the lark's head, and how to not be mistaken for a land lubber, which I now know thanks to Timberrr is a clumsy, useless, land-walking oaf! Good stuff.
[QUOTE=Jsaults;535382]Most kont advice suggests securing the free end of the line with a couple of half hitches.
As memory serves I saw this variation in a British climbing publication maybe 40 years ago, but I have not been able to find reference to it since. Hence, I am now referring to it as "Jim's Bowline". At least, until some lawyer sends me a cease and desist letter.
I think that is called a Double Bowline. I can't find it in http://www.animatedknots.com/ , but I know I saw it somewhere.
This is a great site by the way. When I was trying to quit smoking I needed to do something with my hands, (hay knot tieing). I am still not as proficient, as say Knotty, but I can tie a few more knots than before.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Great videos,........ landlubber.
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A true double bowline results in two main loops being formed. My variation simply secures the tail, and results in a single main loop.
Jim
Good videos. I use both knots a lot but never equated the lark's head to the square knot. Thanks.
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