Running Bowline - How to Tie a Running Bowline - A Very Secure Noose ABoK

The Running Bowline is a member of the noose family, as well as being a member of the Bowline group. The Running Bowline is a very strong and secure noose. It slides extremely easily along the rope and can be undone very easily even if the Running Bowline was under extreme pressure.
The Running Bowline is often used by arborist's to secure heavy branches for lowering or securing the rope to. However, it is used by sailors, bushcrafters and other such groups as a general noose.
ABoK - It is so good a knot that the sailor seldom uses any other Loop Knot aboard ship. According to an old nautical authority it “is used for throwing over anything out of each, or anything under water.” Any lumber that has dropped overboard or any rigging that has gone adrift is recovered by its means.
In this video, I will show a number of different ways to tie the Running Bowline, including two variations using the Marlin Spike Hitch. There is also a very secure version of the Running Bowline that also incorporates a stopper knot, made also via the Marlin Spike Hitch
Also known as Cowboy Running Bowline and Dutch Running Bowline.
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[@Perktube1]

Is that your site? That looks excellent.

[@VirginianJohn]

Ding Dang‼You wouldn't believe how many videos and diagrams I have looked at to learn this knot and still didn't figure out how to tie the basic bowline and the running bowline. You are a life saver as that was the best tutorial I have watched. Thank you so much for taking your time to share how to do this 🙂👍

[@KnottingKnots]

I am also the best looking tutor on KZbin 😉 😉 😉 Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated.

[@sickofit526]

Out of all the videos I’ve seen this video by FAR is the best step by step instructional vid to tie a bowline/running bowline. Great video!!!

[@KnottingKnots]

Cheers mate, very kind of you to say!!

[@adamortner7172]

Your instruction is one of the best on this knot....your delivery is straightforward and clear!

[@robertmills6082]

Thank you Johnny for another great video.You are so good at explaining how to do these knots. Visually I think you are the best. You never leave us wondering. So glad you are willing to show how these knots are done.

[@lesliemowers4443]

I am a senior, trying to follow to tie knots. To complicate it, I am left handed. You go slow enough for me to follow. Thank you!

[@KnottingKnots]

Ah yes, being left handed presents it's own issues..................... I think one advantage of being left handed, don't they live longer? Seriously though, having to switch it in your mind as you follow, must be rather taxing.

[@ScorpionRegent]

Running Bowline - lots of good ways to do it. Here is one more. Tie a bowline, you choose the method . Fold the bowline over the standing part of the rope. This works as long as the rope isn't too stiff and the bowline is tied large enough to fold. Of course won't work if you are tying it around a captured item like a pole. This might be the overhand flip method that Greg Letter mentioned. I like the marlinespike technique as long as the knot is dressed correctly. I also like the technique that takes the free end and twists it around the standing part to form the loop. The stopper knot is too much of a bin and snag risk for me if I want a no fail Bowline I tie it with a Yosemite finish or a double turn. Thanks for the video.

[@BiggerAlan]

Your instructions and illustrations at a slow pace make learning much easier. Thanks for showing the different ways that the running bowline can be done.

[@KnottingKnots]

Just glad that I was able to help. Are you learning knots for fun, or do you have a need?

[@BiggerAlan]

@@KnottingKnots Strictly for need. Use wire rope, chains and steel rope for pulling down trees, pulling up stumps and generate farming activities.

[@KnottingKnots]

@@BiggerAlan Thanks for taking the time to share this information, I always love to hear about knots and cordage/steel being used in action!

[@nimlakaratnaweera8762]

best step to step explanation so far , easy to practise.

[@KnottingKnots]

That's cos I am the best 😉 😉 😉

[@swub2]

Like that you show so many ways to do it.

[@KnottingKnots]

In the early days, I would just tie a knot and then post the video online, but I often found many people would suggest other ways of tying a knot. I now try to find a few variants so as to cover all the bases. Thanks for taking the time to watch and also leave a comment, it is very much appreciated - thanks.

[@mvanikumari1264]

Very easy to follow running bowline.thanks a lot for sharing.

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated.

[@marlenebrown2569]

I wonder why it is called a BOW line.... This is the best instruction for this set of knots that I've seen yet.

[@KnottingKnots]

Yes it is the best, but I would say that ;-) Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated.

[@EvaderGuy]

Well Johnny, your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Thanks.

[@KnottingKnots]

Glad you like them! Do you use knots for fun or for a specific purpose?

[@EvaderGuy]

@@KnottingKnots I have used them for both reasons. I served in the military and used several knots through the years. I still like knotting for fun.

[@KnottingKnots]

@@EvaderGuy Why do you say military, I personally only ever say I served in the Royal Navy? I wonder if it depends on where you are from..................... anyway, back to knots, good to meet you here.

[@EvaderGuy]

@@KnottingKnots I served in the U.S.Army. Good to meet a fellow veteran.

[@KnottingKnots]

Good to meet you too!

[@larrybalboa25]

thanks for sharing very informative 👍

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated.

[@lisakranitz9333]

Very helpful in trying to figure out how to tie a rope between two tree branches so I can hang a hummingbird feeder.

[@BobWidlefish]

As someone who just learned this and tried all methods, I found the Marlin spike hitch version the simplest and also the fastest IMHO as someone who just tried the variations many times. I’m a complete novice who could only tie an overhand knot before this week and have no axe to grind either way. Cheers!

[@rafaabarca6163]

Thanks a lot,very easy explained

[@rmpge]

great video Johnny you explain very well😎👍

[@davidharvey5672]

So pleased i found your channel great explanations cheers.

[@KnottingKnots]

Always a pleasure, thanks for watching and leaving a comment.

[@signptr]

I appreciate your knowledge of knoting

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated. Are you more of a practical or decorative knotter?

[@timloyen8480]

Good lessons. Thanks for posting it.

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated. Are you a practical knotter?

[@timloyen8480]

I fell and trim trees from time to time and have been learning methods to do such in faster easier and safer ways. I now am looking into knots to learn them also as I have lost rope and or spent a lot of time trying to remove bad knots I have made with things other than my fingers. I will be using yours as a refresh and review to practice before I need such knots again.

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks for taking the time to share this information, I always love to hear about knots being used! Please do drop by now and then and let me know what your favourite knots or good/bad knots are?

[@frostbite8572]

Great job lots of details as usual

[@KnottingKnots]

How is the school stuff going, must be coming to an end now?

[@frostbite8572]

Johnny Debt school ended a little while ago now for me so I get 2 months to do anything and I made a really cool belt I'll send u a pic cuz I can't make a vid on it cuz I have no need for another.

[@KnottingKnots]

Yes, it would be really great to see the belt. Yes, that is one problem with doing videos, sometimes you have to make two of an item. Or the other thing I do is, make a video of making it. Then at the end when it is made, show it in the video of what we are going to make, as though we are going to do another one. I think I know what I mean???

[@miketreadway5392]

Good video!

[@KnottingKnots]

Thanks, Mike, good of you to drop in and leave a comment. I take you you are more a practical knotter?

[@Perktube1]

After seeing the eskimo bowline I prefer that one so far.

[@skeetwhite6621]

Gr8 communication skills!

[@KnottingKnots]

I would say the best, but my wife would say otherwise ;-)

[@mynorchavez9848]

Exelent video i like it

[@KnottingKnots]

Glad that you liked it, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

[@inultus1]

Beauty vids. I would like to take up boating for water skiing and such (small lakes) so are bowlines or clove hitches the way to go for stops? Dock cleats are pretty rare on lakes here so that isn't usually an option. Thanks and slainte!

[@KnottingKnots]

I am by now means a knot expert, as you join me on my learning journey. However, I have found that the following knot always seems to get me out of a scrape; The Marlin Spike Hitch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaOVhp2Xi52GjMk

[@zennor_man]

Thanks Johnny, good video.Part two would seem to be the most useful running bowline, can't really see the point of feeding the standing end through the loop particularly if there's a lot as you rightly remark......

[@KnottingKnots]

I have seen some sites that only teach the method of passing the standing end through.

[@jeremiah64]

Remotely setting the tie in point is one use for running the end through the bowline.

[@scatoutdebutter]

Sir, your videos are both knowledgeable and engaging. thanks. Question please? .... what type of rope/line/cord are you using? thanks!

[@KnottingKnots]

To be honest, not really sure exactly what this line is called. It is one of my older videos. In my newer videos I use yellow float line, as it is a bit easier to see on screen.

[@McCurtainCounty888]

Anybody know what a dragging bowline is?

[@UguysRnuts]

Popular with arborists more by default than design. Though functional and effective it is by no means elegant. Generally, a sailor has more options in his arsenal, an arborist, not so much.

[@KnottingKnots]

Yes, as I was researching this one, the arborists seemed to have commandeered this one. I take it that you are a sailor yourself?

[@UguysRnuts]

After my extensive explanation of anchoring techniques I'm surprised you'd ask.

[@KnottingKnots]

Ah yes of course from Wales. Sorry, I get quite a few people leaving comments so not always easy to remember who is who. Maybe to help an old man, you could put up a profile picture for me to recognise easier ;-)

[@Blasphemy4kidz]

Skip to 2:08 to go straight to the tying

[@KnottingKnots]

What, and miss my inane chatter??? Joking aside, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. I do try to improve each video as I go along.

[@Perktube1]

You don't live in Knottingham, do you?

[@KnottingKnots]

No mate, down south.

[@robertmorley3609]

Very good, but that knife makes me nervous!

[@KnottingKnots]

I love that knife, first ever present from a viewer! The only time I use a knife in anger is to cut a rope, so the world is safe with me!

[@BobWidlefish]

*@Robert Morley* it’s funny I was thinking that if I did videos I’d use a firearm as a pointer just for fun. :)

[@elphantom8953]

1:59 weird flex but ok 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@Cerebral-cardio_Carnivore]

Finally an Englishman. Been trawling through Yanks explaining these things - terrible.

[@KnottingKnots]

As a proud nation, all we have left is our accent ;-) Thanks for taking the time to view and also make a comment, very much appreciated. Are you more of a practical or decorative knotter?

[@Cerebral-cardio_Carnivore]

Got a job interview today for an arborist position as it goes. Don't have any rigging tickets yet and just found out last night the gaffer is expecting me to be able to fell tops out on running bowlines...something I've never done in practice so was just having a look to brush up. I'm feeling...apprehensive, as we speak lol. You're right about "all we have left". Sad times in Blighty. Let us get out of the EU and elect some people with backbone. Too early for politics! Cheers for the vid mate.

[@KnottingKnots]

Some how I think you might just get the job, well you are passing the first test - Getting out of bed on a Saturday for a job interview!!! Good luck to you today mate.

[@Cerebral-cardio_Carnivore]

Got it mate ;)

[@KnottingKnots]

Well done mate, few pints tonight then??? ;-)