Navy Skills for Life – Knot Tying – Bowline

Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Stephen Jacob Cobb demonstrates one of the easiest and strongest knots to tie - the bowline knot.

[cmcc]

Love to see you tying it around an object using that insane method, absolute bollocks

[shovelhead]

Very Nice!! Had never seen this technique but leave it to the Navy to come up with the Best demonstration! Bravo🤙

[zippyman]

Lovely editing and sound!  Okay, one knot down, a bunch more to go! Found the video from your Twitter account!

[JBullock]

There’s 3-4 simpler ways to tie it. I’d watch other tutorials

[DeanLangley]

Dad was a coxswain aboard a destroyer in Navy, WWII. I can assure you they didn’t have time for that nonsense. I learned to tie a bowline from him at age 5. I watched an Army Ranger demonstrate the way they were taught and he mentioned this ridiculous method of the rabbit and the hole. It’s ridiculous alright. So was his method. I can imagine using either method under pressure.

Take the live end in your left hand running away from you and the dead end in your right and place it across the live end and pinch with your thumb and finger at the crossing. Turn knot over with the right hand creating the small loop with the dead end in it. Now take the dead end under and around the live end and through the hole.

Tug boat bowline is same thing different method and ten times faster.

[briggsley]

I didn't know my guys were still they're? I miss ya!

[LeoDomitrix]

How I learned it, at age 4, and it was confusing then. Now I just tie the bowline or double bowline and not even think about it!

[charlessmith]

COULD you show how to tie a TUG BOAT BOWLINE?

[firehound]

This is a hard but I'm still trying

[trainingvideos]

Navy....always have to make to complicated.

[raymondcassiday]

I’m a tree climber … this is a bowline … literally chose the most difficult way to tie it, other than upside down in a tree … Jesus