Complete Guide to the Bowline Knot and its Most Important Variants

[@svengrohans4621]

I know the knot and its variations, but thank you for pointing out that it's good if you can tie it with one hand. I've never thought about it before.

[@thetautline]

Glad you could take something away from it, thanks for watching

[@evzone84]

You are an amazing reference. I wish I had found you sooner.

[@thetautline]

Much appreciated, thanks for tuning in!

[@waynenocton]

Very good video, easy to follow, well filmed and narrated.

[@nobrakebrett]

Hey, Taut. Its Brett, from last night on YT shorts. I've been enjoying some of your longer form content, and I figured I'd leave a video idea with you. I'd like to see some knot tutorials on good knots to use in a vehicle towing/vehicle rescue situation. Not sure if it's your cup of tea but I always find myself wondering what to tie in those situations and I love your form of teaching. Thanks for considering it at all, have a great day.

[@thetautline]

I like it! Thanks for the idea, I might work something like that in over the next few months

[@Iconoclassic]

This is an excellent video on my favorite fixed loop knot. One criticism is that the Eskimo bowline and Cossak bowline are not the same knot. The Eskimo is to the Cossak what the standard bowline is to the cowboy bowline. There is even a snap version of both the Eskimo and Cosssk. Instead of folding a loop over the standing end (noose, Marlin spike hitch) as you do with the standard and cowboy bowling, fold it over the working end (slip knot). Then pass the working end through as normal and pull.

[@thetautline]

Thanks! I've seen conflicting sources on the "Eskimo" vs. "Cossack" naming, regarding the direction of the tag end, so I just left it ambiguous (with them both referring to the same knot), but point taken. The snap version for those knots is a nice inclusion too, thanks.

[@xfire301]

I discovered that the sheet bend has bowline geometry trading Ashley. He describes your single handed method to tie a sheet bend. I had always tied a bowline that way. Curiously, Ashley doesn’t describe a bowline with that method. I yacht racing we use the snap bowline to tie a sheet on a flying sail while dangling off a halyard in a climbing harness. We call it a Ninja bowline

[@SethGrube]

Exceptional video and very fastidious and precise. The only correction that needs to be made is in the final moments of the video where you conflate the Tugboat or Flying Bowline with the Angler's Loop; they are different knots. Thanks for keeping things real with knot tying...

[@travisperry4515]

What you refer to as a slip knot in the snap bowline is called a marlinspike hitch

[@aaronthenorm5400]

Best knot for string tie sweats and hoodies!

[@phillipjoseph1535]

Water bowline is a bowline tied through a clove hitch, no?

[@jonbjorkeback9499]

Best bowline information video on YT. Well done!

[@edgardogiudice5135]

It's the best what I've seen about bowling knot. Congratulations.

[@bushcraftbasics2036]

Thanks for making the video

[@thetautline]

Thanks for watching!

[@sterlinggeorge205]

do you know where I could find a copy of the "Marine Knots" book you mentioned?

[@thetautline]

Here it is: archive.org/details/Skryagin-1992-Knots/1984-/mode/2up

[@josiahtm866]

Is a double bowline just a Portuguese bowline with the second loop tightened?

[@tanguerochas]

In my opinion, you are missing a very important variant: Scott's Locked Bowline. It is fare more secure than the double bowline. Thank you for the video. I've subscribed.

[@thetautline]

Noted, thanks!

[@KaiLee-Taia]

Double bowline with Yosimite finish?

[@ushi120]

😂 Cossak bowline, eskimo bowline and russian bowline are different names for the absolutely same knot. It doesn't matter if the working end is inside or outside the loop. The Kalmyk bowline is also the same knot, only difference: a quick release at the end, that simple, no mystique! What I missed in this video: It seams that in the northern hemisphere, where you have to deal with very cold weather and ice conditions it is preferable to use the Eskimo bowline. I suppose it is easier to tie with gloves and easier to untie when the rope is frozen. Sounds logic to me. Cheers

[@Mr71paul71]

You missed out the king of the bowline knots, the EBSB with Yosemite finish. It's the strongest most secure bowline out there. Or the EBDB bowline too.

[@calvinjohnson7806]

Thanks again

[@ryanbeard1119]

Have you ever heard of, using Portuguese or French bowli e as a body-rescue rig, with one loop being for one foot to support on, amd the other for the body, then someone could use other leg to push off rock face

[@alexbondarev8986]

Cossack Bowline and Eskimo bowline are different knots. They relate to each other differently than the Dutch and English versions of bowlines. It is impossible to tie a Kalmyk knot on an Eskimo bowline

[@МаксимБезвершенко-ц6у]

Ошибаетесь, уважаемый г-н Бондарев! Они именно так и соотносятся. И развязать эскимосский узел с петлей (аналог калмыцкого) тоже возможно, но это сложнее, а значит, неудобней. Подробно об этом на сайте у Александра Ловкова.

[@ekambaramsivachidambaram8720]

V useful

[@MuttaXD]

thank a lot~~~

[@64251973rrg]

Basically you can learn lot of knots when your experience as a BoysScout

[@williamcompitello2302]

You forgot the Spanish Bowline.