How to Tie A Water Bowline Knot

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Dan and I'm here with Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to tie the water bowline. The water bowline is the secret variation of the original bowline it is useful when pulling one boat behind another boat and it is able to take jarring motions and not become loose. Tie two opposing loops cross them over and under one another. Take your working end feed up through both of the loops, around and behind the none working end of your rope and follow the line through. What you have now is the bowline with a loop in it. So if you are towing a boat and it is pulling on the road with a line most of the force is being transfer through this loop and it would not come untie. Putting very little strain on the bowline on itself. So that is a water bowline."