A quick Bowline

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HG02
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27 Jan 2016 11:10pm
cisco
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27 Jan 2016 10:59pm

Look closely!! It is sexy but I do not believe it is a bowline.
sirgallivant
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31 Jan 2016 1:22am

Ok. It seems more like a juggling act, and even if it is a proper bowline, what is a use of it without any practical application. The rope is not in a clew ring or around ones waist. If one is able to tie a bowline single handed around his own waist, fine, it might save ones life one day.
I tie my bowlines single handed when required and there is always a smartarse, who is saying it is not a proper one until l am doing it slowly or let him pull it apart to burn himself.

HG02
HG02
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31 Jan 2016 2:03am
sirgallivant said..

Ok. It seems more like a juggling act, and even if it is a proper bowline, what is a use of it without any practical application. The rope is not in a clew ring or around ones waist. If one is able to tie a bowline single handed around his own waist, fine, it might save ones life one day.
I tie my bowlines single handed when required and there is always a smartarse, who is saying it is not a proper one until l am doing it slowly or let him pull it apart to burn himself.



Subsonic
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31 Jan 2016 12:46am
cisco said...

Look closely!! It is sexy but I do not believe it is a bowline.


+1 for Cisco.

Impressive fast formation, but it's not even a deformed bowline. The tail is coming off the wrong part of the knot, and it looks very much like something that will slip under load.
BlueMoon
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31 Jan 2016 5:12am
Tying the knot is only 50% of the job, dressing it is the other 50%.
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