Bowline Knot • Most Useful Knot In The World

This is how to tie a Bowline Knot, snap to bowline and tying to a structure. We needed this knot a lot sailing the Bahamas.

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[AryaEbrahimi]

Man, I've been tying bowlines for 30 years and I've never seen it done this way. Learn something new everyday!

[michaelfrancis]

Please do more videos like this. I always found the complicated thing about tying knots was that when you went to apply it to something, it wasn't the same as tying it in your hand. This is actually very useful and informative.

[johnwick]

I used the Bowline Knot almost exclusively in my 45 year career as a High Steel, Stage, Arena, Stadium, and Theatrical Rigger.
When pulling up the Heavy Steel Chains, Steel Cables, Equipment, and sometimes the Motors themselves, that lift and secure the Lighting, Sound, and Sets in the air above a Stage, Crew, or an Audience, you need a reliable knot which won't slip, come loose, and is easy to untie, both in the air and on the ground.
We used a lot of other specialty knots as well, but 9 of 10 were Bowline.

[treesavages]

Bowline is not the knot that never comes undone but it’s the knot that always comes undone even after put under extreme loads.

[JBlandford]

Technically speaking, they can come undone with cyclical loading (loading and unloading them repeatedly) which is why they don’t get used for rock climbing much these days

[grumd]

Such a great explanation, I watched it once, then took a usb cable and tied the knot first try without looking at the video again. So simple!

[jmind_xd]

I was taught the hole, rabbit, and tree trick. I’ll definitely give this a try at work today.

[randyporter]

I taught rope rescue at our fire dept for 30 years, but this is a new bowline method. I taught the "one hand" method (around yourself) and the old "out the hole, around the pole, back in the hole". Great method here, thanks for sharing !

[jfilm]

Put a loop in the last bit, tighten it up and you have a quick release version.

[motrockb]

At first, this looked complicated. After I tried it a few times I decided it's a great method to know, since I can now tie a bowline with my eyes closed. The rabbit/tree method is easy to remember, but I can't tie it with my eyes closed very easily. This may be a factor in an emergency situation, like working in darkness.

Thank you for demonstrating this method!

[Browneye]

An easier way to tie than I've always used - passing the working end through the loop, over the standing end, and back through the loop. This is much more efficient. Thanks!
Oh, and I've been a sailor for over fifty years.

[mitchellminer]

Interesting way to look at it. Thanks.

[Gum_Cuzzler]

best bowline video on TY. got it immediately after watching. TY!

[rogueranger]

This knot makes me feel intelligent whenever i do the variations of how to do it

[aceventura]

Thanks for.posting this way, best way to describe the bowline knot is using this technique

[skipdreadman]

It's not that it's the knot that never comes undone, it's the knot that never slips. That is why it's the preferred rescue knot.

[marcinfo]

Best knot post here. Bowline is King and i like this technique

[jeffschneider]

Learned many yers ago.. easy . .best way. I have showed sailors . . Thanks for showing people.

[CKYES-xh]

Never tied it like that in the tens of thousands of times I’ve tied it.

[PyeGuySailing]

There's also " the rabbit goes out the hole, around the tree and back down the hole"