How to Tie The Bowline Knot - [For VISUAL Learners]

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Another useful trick is that this can be tied one-handed such as in the scenario of grabbing a rescue line. You loop the rope around you, let's say right handed so from left around your back to right. You then dip your hand across the taught end of the line to your left, down and into the loop created. You then flip up and to the right, and loop the line behind and to the left of the taught side. You grab the end and pull back through the loop around your hand. It's not the easiest to explain but you may be able to look it up. When done, you now have a non-slipping knot that is already around you and you can relax and wait to be pulled up by rescue. Contact me if you need more info or a video demonstration.

I knew this knot as a rescuer's knot from my sailing days.
Imagine you fall off from the sailing yacht and somebody throws your a rope.
You can hold on the rope with one hand and tie this knot with the other around yourself.
How to do that? You grab the end of the rope, tension the rope with the other hand creating some slack. Then the hand with the end of the rope creates a hole with the twist of the wrist and threads the end through.
It's easy (depending on the speed of the yacht) and potentially life saving.

My favourite knot 😍

I have learned in the military how to quickly mind it around yourself (so you can jump into the river to save someone and get pulled out, or something related), it goes really fast 2 seconds is definitly possible. Sadly I have forgotten it.

thank you for sharing. muchas gracias!!

It really doesn't matter whether you do "key on" or "key off", you just need to enter the loop in the correct direction. Here's what I do:
- Make the loop in the standing end of the line.
- Look at the X part of the loop. If the standing end of the line is on top of the X, then insert the working end through the loop from the top. If the standing end is on the bottom of the X, insert the working end through the loop from the bottom.
- Then finish the knot by going around the standing end and back through the loop.

The cool thing is if you get it wrong, the knot will completely fail and you just try again.

I'm surprised that the one handed technique wasn't shown. This can be real useful when one hand is holding something else or is injured.

Clove hitch

The rabbit parks his car in the hold, turns off the key, comes out of the hole. goes around the tree, and back into his hole.

Great tutorial on one of the most useful knots. I worked as a rigger and also taught Scout knot tying for a few years. The only thing I see left out of this , is how to ties it one handed. Especially useful in rescue work and downright handy when you need to tie it while holding onto something either to support yourself of stabilize the object. I don't recall how to tie it that way but I'll grab a piece of rope and try .

When i used to work a the port and harbour where i live, we used bowline knots to moor ships/boats to the pontoons.
I used to be able to make them in around about 3 seconds and knew blokes & women that were able to make the bowline 1 handed which was cool af.

Thanks for the great content!! super helpful and really accessibly explained.

That's a dangerously short tail. All bowline knots should have an overhand safety knot onto the load strand. When I teach this know, I also demonstrate the "death knot," which is when the loop gets flipped the wrong way. It's easy to correct once you know how easy it can happen. The overhand safety knot, with the proper length of tail, helps greatly to minimize this hazard. Most other knots don't require a backup safety knot.

my dad was a first mate/sailor starting on working boats back in the late 1930's and into ww2. He taught me this amazing knot long ago and after watching this it all came back and got it on the first try🤗

I'm not very good with my Knotts that's one weakness I have are they good books out there today but I know of are there any good books out there that anybody knows of

In cadets that was the one knot that not matter what I did I could not do it. Even following the bunny in whole didn’t work. One time when doing it in a test it didn’t work. Confused the instructor so he did it with me and still following exactly as I could it did not work. I hate that “easy” “everyone can do it” knot

"This is the best knot." ...moments later "If you tied your knot like this, you've done it wrong, but the wrong knot is even better. Don't worry. You can fix it." LOL

Fantastic explanation. I learned how to tie a bowling in a matter of seconds. Thank you!

I've made a repelling harness with bowlines .

Best video thank you!

Awesome content. Thank you so much!

I just discovererd this channel ... very good explanations... subscribed! 👍

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Wow. Thanks for the extra uses & combination uses.

Great Video! 🙂 Very good explained. Thank you very much.

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Christian 🙂

I learned the bowline from Jaws. The old sea captain said " the eel comes out of his hole, swims around and goes back in his hole." So I make a round turn, pass the end of the rope thru the round turn then over the rope and back thru the round turn.

Hi, when you have your hats back in stock? Thanks! Also, great video!

Please do a video of tying a life saving bowline around your own waist, one handed if necessary. if Someone throws you a rope without a bowline already completed, your hand can slip from the rope should you go unconscious due to gases or hypothermia. It might save your own life one day! I used to teach Light Rescue in the Army and later, Elementary School as well. I taught the Bowline, as well as the Bowline around your own waist to every one of my Students.

The bowline marlin spiked with a carabiner has also served me well. Rather than use a stick, I simply run the marlin spike bight through the bowline loop, then lock a carabiner around the bowline loop so the marlin spike can't escape. Still adjustable. Stick won't break, or slide. plus the setup feels mad-outdoorsy. ;)

Where I sail it's pronounced "bow-lin".

Its life saver im a scout

I really like the marlinespike hitch idea. Thank you for another helpful video.

I've never thought of using it in a marlin spike. That's going to make my tarp experience so much better!

As a lineman for 30+ yrs. I have tied a bowline everyday of my career. Never fails

In my opinion the king is the Alpine Butterfly. It holds king and queen posts. It will esily be tied in as similar fassion for similar uses as a bowline. It does knot need to tied the regular way. It can be tied around objects and an end of the rope. Also better than the bowline is the anglers/the perfection knot, because it is as easily to remember and much more stable during variable stress loads. But Apline Butterfly is the best. Both is as easy to untie as the regular Bowline. The Apline is also the best way to join ropes. It solves almost any need. Bowline is however easier to tie with one hand and somewhat quicker, but less stable and with fewer uses. The most useful is 1. alpine butterfly, 2. truckers hitch with overhand with quick release, 3. farrimonds friction knot with quick release, 4. perfection/anglers knot/loop, 5. shoe lace rosette, 6. figure eight

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i can't understand the last part. How does it slide or not slide? What keeps the rope length in one position. Just call me city boy!

Knot used most by bridge and water tower painters. We also use the clove hitch a lot

Basic tutorial, but exceptionally handy to know. Thank you.

Sometimes you must destroy your enemies with what you know.

My favorite knot I use it everyday to cut trees lower down branches

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You're amazing!!!

That's the way i first learned to tie it but after doing linework for over 2 decades i can tie it in my sleep. I do it all in one motion without having to make the loop and hold it like that. Hard to explain but i can tie one in like 2 seconds. Another good use for it is an inline bowline. You tie it without the end of the rope. You make a bowline in the line and then pass the working end around an anchor and then through the bowline. Then you pull on that end to make the rope tight and tie a couple half hitches. It's very easy to hold the tension with one hand as you tie the half hitches with the other. You can hold the tension with just 2 fingers by pinching where the rope goes through the bowline and back toward the anchor point. It works very good for if you want to get a rope really tight. We use to use them for temporary guy wires when doing transmission work. It also comes in handy for pulling vehicles out and you have a really long rope that you don't want to cut. Or even tying things down in the back of a truck or 4 wheeler. A lot of people don't know how to tie things down properly and get slack in the line, lose the tightness in the rope. Do an inline bowline and you will get the rope extremely tight. I've even made a clothes line with it before.

Ever discuss the running bowline as a retired 40 year + arborist I used this not more than the standing bowline by far main usage same features as standing bowline but running bowline used for tying bowline beyond reach of desired object in my case a tree branch and knot completion you would pull the standing line and bowline would run up and secure object for in my case rigging purposes as a young trainee back in the day always wondered if I would ever get it right now a days I can tie the running bowline much easier than the standing bowline of course only because of the running bowline my every day knot as most all situations aloft in scaling a tree knotting generally was a unreachable Endeavour a little humour to add to my story I remember well when a close friend arborist province forester Ontario Hydro said to me hey Mark do you know the running bowline I replied honestly and said no I don’t so he in turn took a standing bowline placed on the ground and took the line with bowline on the ground and ran across the yard with it ! Lol still find it funny to this day ! Joke of the day so to speak and of course from that day on I mastered the running bowline as my primary occupational knot with all the same features of strength and easy untying upon completion of task ! Thought I would share love your site ! Mark from 🇨🇦!

It also ties REALLY well around people's necks