How to Tie a Bowline Knot

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to demonstrate a simple but really classic knot. It?s called a Bowline. Now its spelled b o w l i n e, and most people want to say bow line, but its not, its bowline. If we look down here, I'll show you several different ways of doing it. I do not tie this knot the way I was taught to tie it, but I'm going to show you both ways, just however you want to do it. Because some ways are simpler for me than they used to be. So what I'm going to do, is just bring this around like here and just create this loop that I've got going on. And bring it back, and just create basically just a twist here. And take it back around this loop. I want to bring it through like so. And as I pull on it, a true bowline is not supposed to slip what so ever. If you happen to pull on it from the wrong end you'll actually get this knot to slip out into actually another type of slip knot. But you'll have to pull on the standing end to get it to pull into a nice bowline knot. Now I'll show you the way that I usually tie it, which is always easier for me to remember. I'll take my line here, and I'll take a loop, I'm going to create a loop, and I'm going to put it over my line as so. An underhand loop. And I'm going to take this loop and pull it through, and I'm going to weave it like so. Now this will create basically the same knot. Now if I pull on my working end like so, this will create the slip knot I was talking about. So to counter that, you'll pop it up. And then pull right here. And you'll pull more on these two here, creating a nice tight bowline."