The ONE KNOT Every Boater MUST KNOW | Learn To Tie It Easy Then Fast
2023 ж. 6 Ақп.
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This video focuses on the bowline knot. It's an incredibly useful knot that won't slip no matter how much tension is applied, and yet can still be untied easily.
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How to Tie the Bowline One-Handed
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Thanks for teaching slow and fast versions
OMG, out of all the videos for a bowline, this was the BEST example on how to make one!!! Thank you for this!!!!😀
Very well explained. Thanks!
Best knot teacher! Done at first try, thank you.
Thank you very much for your easy way of teaching the bowline knot. God bless you.
Great tutorial on the bowline knot. Thank-yuu
You forgot to show the most important part: how to "undo" the knot after it's been under huge tension for a longer period of time. This is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable features of this knot and also the reason why I use this for almost everything.
Yep, use of a marlin spike is essential knowledge for any boater
Got my first boat last may, a Yamaha FSH 190 sport. Learning boat knots with my sons has been fun. Even the wife has learned a thing or 2.
Its not glamorous but sure comes in handy when you're needing a good knot fast!
I enjoyed teaching many young Scouts that knot. When creating the hole and tree, I found Scouts like the additional analogy that the Tree must grow out of the ground, not on top of the ground. This gets the loop in the correct direction. Great Videos!!!
Yoooo that's a great addition to the old mnemonic!
That is a good show, I love the rabbit, safe boating.
Excellent. Thank you I have been a boater for many years and have always been “frightened “ of tying that knot, and always bought the ready spliced loop. Now I am sure I can do it, thanks again.
Wait till this afternoon when we post the one handed BowLine knot video! You'll look like a pro!
Awesome camera work! Attention to detail 😎
One of my favorites, having sailed for years. If you need a midline loop under high tension from both sides that holds fast but super easily undone saving your line, check out the alpine butterfly, amazing knot.
The Butterfly is one of those knots that make life so much easier.
Great video thanks
Thank you for saving my sanity!!!
Great content, presentation, and video quality!
Thank you!!
Very good lesson on making a bowline. 5:51
Thank you, your instruction made it very easy. I'm going to practice this more.
Awesome, glad to help!!
Thank you for showing the fast way to tie a bowline knot. I discovered how to do this when I was in Boy Scouts and we had knot tying races. It makes the knot so much easier. I find the bowline to be extremely useful.
You're welcome!
Excellent vid!
absolutely agree, this is the most important knot for boaters. I practised and practised until I could perform the knot in any position without having to look. Practice whilst watching tv. Once you have found your way of tying the knot, you will never forget it.
That's good advice and those who are watching this video need to read this comment. Practice practice practice!
Yeap! Like riding a bicycle 😄
Well explained!
One of the most useful knots there ever was.... It is all but impossible not to easily undo the knot. Can't think of anytime I've not been unable to untie it. Bigger the rope, easier it works. My next two most used knot is the rolling clove hitch and the truckers hitch.
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1:48 Perfect Practice makes Perfect. If one does a wrong practice, it will go further and further from perfection ... Good video, thank you for your time.
Good video. Slow, methodical, easy to follow!
That's how I learn
Looked at several videos on this to teach kids in our sailing class. I think this is the best. BTW, that “granny” is called a “half hitch”.
I'm glad to hear that this video helped you.
Thanks for the video - the "granny" knot you used to lock the bowline is a half hitch.
Love the piling simulation. :)
The only knot taught to me as a royal navy ships diver. Was used to secure the diver to his safety line and the surface tender diver
Awesome!
Great knot! That second, fast method is how I learned to tie it. That "wrap" in the second method is a simple overhand knot, then give a slight pull on the working end and voila, there's your loop, then around the standing part, back down through the loop, and it's done in 2 seconds.
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That's the only one I need thanks you bud
You're welcome
Great explanation, Thank you!
You're welcome
When I started my construction apprenticeship, I was given a book on rigging. I was told to go and buy myself a length of rope and learn how to tie knots. I was also informed that if asked I better be able to tie whichever knot it was. That was 50 years ago, and I still know the inside bowline, outside bowline, square, Carrick bend clove hitch... a good knot is one that you can tie, holds and you can untie.
The irony here is that the clove hitch doesn't hold 😅 Never understood why that's even taught anymore. It should only serve as a "step 1" to better knots like the spar hitch.
so useful. thanks . i will try it like you said.
Good deal! Thanks for reaching out!
Very good illustration and instructions.
Thank you!
The keeper knot or a long tail on a bowline on the jib sheet or it can untie itself.
useful-yes won't slip-correct most important- no too many others that are easy to tie that do the same job, that's the cool thing about knots!! 🤠
Cool thank you their skippy. 😊
I appreciate your video.
Thanks!
Hell ya. Best by far the only know you only need, bowline on the bite is equally important.
Thanks, very good instruction
You're very welcome!
Thanks.
The bowline knot. Just 1 of the things I learned in the Boy Scouts.
Also the only knot I learned at the 1 BS class I went to. However,we learned to do it with one hand, around our body.
@@dongies5834 Yes, because you just might be in a helluva situation and actually need that knot so that your story can continue.
@@dongies5834 Yes, because you just might be in a helluva situation and actually need that knot so that your story can continue.
When I have someone one the boat while docking I generally tell them the procedure long before we get to the dock. If I'm having them get off the boat carrying the bow line I always give them the loop end of the line because it's likely they won't know what to do with the straight end.
Great tutorial
Thank you! I hope it was helpful for you!
Thanks
As a young boy my parents had a houseboat (shack on styrofoam) and a run about. Dad was in the Navy and was constantly showing a young, hyperactive, uninterested boy how to tie knots. Many (boring at the time) knots and splices where learned in the off time. Now later in life, I am so thankful he took the time and MADE me watch and tie his various methods. When I read your title, before even watching, I instantly thought of those days. First one that came to mind was the Bowline. So I of course had to watch just to see. lol Thanks for taking me back!
That's great! So glad to help you recall that awesome memory!
You made this so easy! I sail, and it's so embarrassing I haven't been able to tie this knot!
It's so critical. We're getting ready to teach it again, this time showing how to tie it quick.
Does it matter which direction the rabbit goes around the tree i find it worked in both directions. Clockwise and anti clockwise.
Not sure, try it and let me know.
@@JetBoatPilot yer works perfectly
A long time ago when I was still a teen I was in a diving club and training for my scuba certificates. We also learned to tie that knot while in the water very fast when you get a rope end thrown toward you for a rescue or something. Even can do that with one hand (two is more easy)while the other hand holds a person that is unconcious or something. The trick is to get the rope behind your back so you are in the u_shape of the rope (or behind the victims back so the rope passes between the two of you). The one hand holds the end and you try to have the long part that is leading to the shore /boat/ helicopter or what ever leading away from you to the side you face. now with that hand with rope end go over the other long line, come back with your hand under the line while you twist your hand. this makes the loop (rabbit hole) in the long end) now get the short line end behind the part of the long part of the rope that is "the tree" and with your fingers you push it behind the "tree"and at the same moment you get the short end with those same fingers via the front of "the tree". So the line makes a u-turn around "the tree" while you hand it over to yourself in the same hand (needs some practice but is not very hard) and now you pull the hand back so the loop (rabbithole) will slide over your hand and closes the knot. ones you had some practice you can do it within 2 seconds single handed
Very cool!!
Only thing I’ve ever used it for is people - unless I’ve had the luxury of a basket. Cleat hitches are for docking. They don’t undo themselves and don’t require and additional hitch to allow them to be slacked or tight. Another benefit is you don’t have lines messed all over the place you just have an orderly cleat.
I feel like in the time it took you to write this, you could have recorded and uploaded a video 😂
@@samhain9394 Haha, yes you are right. It is an "issue" I have. I am very good in going in for a quick comment and loose myself in a pretty long story.
Agree, too bad comments do not allow for videos that I am sure you could provide. I teach it your way: real life situation, standing end on the boat, working end around person in the water as much a one handed operation as possible.
Learning to tie it with one hand is a huge life saver ....can be literal or figuratively speaking.
thank you
You're welcome!
I worked in dredging for many, many years. The bowline is simply the best knot and everyone is expected to know how to make one. You can apply a lot of tension on one and it easily unties.
That's why the video thumbnail says "BEST KNOT". I hear comments like yours so often that I feel like the term is true.
I just picked up my 252sd. What knot should I use to connect a tube to the hook on back.
If your toe rope does not have a loop already tied this knot is a great loop knot
In Boy Scouts in England (1060s) we learned the Bowline and then had to do it hanging from a wooden beam in the scout hut with one hand and tying the knot around your waist with the other hand.
That sounds really challenging!
That Yamaha UltraDeck is the barf.
Use this and clove hitch All the time
I don't think I'm alone when I say that i can never remember knots when I need them. That's why ratchet straps are so popular and I have a bunch of them. Lol.
True, you really have to use them often to be proficient. I do a ton of boating so knots like this one are super important and being able to tie it quick is also super important.
FACTS.
Bet you don't know how to wrap those up for storage either 😂
@@samhain9394 Maybe I don't but I keep tangles to a minimum the same as I do with extension cords and garden hoses by making large loops laying on the ground, maybe 3' diameter. I hardly ever get tangles that way and the few times I do, the number of turns involved is minimal. Nice smooth pay outs. The hand to elbow method is probably the worst.
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It's not called a loop, it's called an eye.
In Texas we pronounce it Bo-Lynn knot
Didn't know the Palstek is called the Bowline Knot. Thanks.
Once you practice the faster method, It all becomes muscle memory, then it's like riding a bike. You never forget how. Put about 8-10 inches of rope hanging out of your right hand and "whip" it over the part you're holding in the left hand so it comes back up through the hole. Then with your left hand just roll "the rabbit hole" right over the bitter end. It's a lot easier to do then explain, but once you get the rhythm you'll always remember ir.
The half hitch "granny knot" as sown will untie itself in water!
A Bowline knot if allowed to flog can loosen and become untied. This has happened to me a couple times when using a bowline to tie on my jib sheets. I now throw a half hitch on to the loop with the extra bitter end to resolve this problem.
Yes.
For one which won't slip, try the Somerville.
Know the BOWLINE and learn the BOWLINE ON A BIGHT for a boson's chair.......completely different knot, looks similar. Other good boater, Boy Scout knots we had to learn square knot, for reefing, clove hitch, sheepbend for joining lines of different diameters, sheepshank to shorten a line, and then one and two half hitches, which you already know....probably.
The bo'lin' is essentially the same as a sheet bend. So, if you want to join two lines, you use the quick bo'lin' method.
Similar but not 'essentially' the same.
It does not matter how you start what you called a P, be it under or over, as the logic that the end of the rope is required to follow after that, will speak to you so coherently to obtain the lock! .
very nice, but how do you get it undone later?
That's the beauty of the bowline, its easy to untie even after its been under an extreme load.
I was taught how to tie a bowline with one hand while hanging from a cliff edge
How do I purchase the segmented bucket
For which boat?
Up the hole, round the tree and back down the hole. The rabbit story!
I had a bowline knot that loosened by itself when exposed to waves and not loaded. didnt know it could.
Tie a Hitch on the end and it should not loosen.
I learned how to die the bowline in scouts, the problem is that I learned how to do it one handed, with the line wrapped around me. It's the only way I can tie it. I need to practice this some more.
Cool glad to help
It's not a loop It's a eye,all lines have a breaking strength ,all knots reduce the breaking strength, bu the bowline keeps 90% of the strength of the line do to less friction
Ever use the Eskimo Bowline knot? It's an interesting variation.
No but interested
I remember JAWS!!!!
Gotta do it one hand...
It can save your life!
Please elaborate.
Thanks buddy cheers Ricky 🇺🇸🎸👩🏻🦼💥🙏🐈⬛💦🎣🔥
There's a much faster way to tie this knot as well believe it or not, and you also don't have to let go of the tag end AT ALL, so you don't risk dropping or losing it. I can't explain it here but do some more searching and you'll find it
Make a slip knot. Run the end of the line through the hole. Then pull the slip knot back through itself as if you're undoing the slip knot. There's your bowline knot done SO MUCH easier.
Exactly, by far the easiest way
I learned it this way too.
Too bad that the thumbnail for this video does not show a bowline knot. The bitter end leaves a proper bowline knot pointing towards the inside of the loop. Compare the knot at 5:56 to the thumbnail to see the difference.
I honestly think that the 'shortcut' version is just confusing and the first way you showed is the very simplest method to teach the knot. I still tie a bowline in this way every time. (Although I now do them upside down etc)
Flip the loop like you’re starting your car.
I've been messing around with boats for over 40 years now but I have never ever seen a bowline come loose by itself unless the end was kept ridiculously short.
It is rare but in KZhead land you have to mention the possibility. Otherwise you get notified really quick by the experts that you missed that detail.
It can loosen if not under constant tension.
@@Rudy32225 No, not likely.
🤔🤔🤔Interesting how different the world is 70 years ago my grandfather taught me this knot only difference there was no rabbit but a snake Same result 😮😮😮 😉😉😉
Can you show us the flying bowline..it's waaay more fun...( I can throw it...)
Video incoming tomorrow!
Nice explanation, but the loose end actually has to sit outside the loop, not inside.
It's called Palstek
...cool, very cool Will...
Thank you!
Figure 8 is Fast and easy to undo ( lots of Knot we lean back in the day for Rock Climbing )
There is an easier technique. Put the rope around your waist; go over the left side with the end of the rope on the right hand; bring it back under and go around the other end; done. Once you do it a couple of times, you can do it with eyes closed.
True, best way to learn and remember. Has relevance to real life situation.
Tie the damb knot!
What do you do for a living your garage is loaded with toys
Manufacture and sell jet boat parts and accessories
Fell asleep before getting to the knot
Sounds like you need to get more sleep at night lol!
Trying to learn this knot with the loop pointed twords you is the most confusing way.
@2:14 "Lets Dive Right In" !?