Best way to tie a bowline knot for sailing with troubleshooting & variations
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- For sailing newbies! Learn, step by step how to tie a bowline for sailing.
If you're just starting out with sailing you will absolutely need to learn this knot.
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This video is my spin on the best way to learn and practice this knot. Complete with troubleshooting guides and some more advanced variations.
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Have have not been able to tie a bowline all my life. Now I can. No more rabbits. Thank you!
Single best bowline instruction I've seen. The observation of having a practical orientation when learning this not is so key. A great video! Nice work.
Finally! A practical guide to making a Bowline. I struggle with this in videos that don't show what the heck you use it for. Thank you very much Ryan!
Cool! Glad it could help!
Just want to tell you that no one on you tube teaches the bow line better than you. I always come back to your vid. Be Blessed and thank you.
Great video, I especially like that it's done from the point of the one tying the knot, it makes it much easier to follow. Keep up the great work.
Great, you have cleverly showed all the mistakes I did myself at one point or another, and helped me get this bowline consistently right from now on!!!!
Thanks for the teaching. The best part of the video is highlighting what goes wrong, and now i understand the stuff i made wrong when tie a bowline
Thank you so much. Best video I found about the "one hand bowline' and the Alex version. Thanks again.
Been working on my basic seamanship lately and found your video really helpful since I'm not usually having to tie knots with the line leading away from me like in most tutorials. Thanks for pointing out the various ways to get this knot wrong. I followed along with some 550 cord and now I feel like I can make correct bowlines in my sleep :)
I found my new favorite knot for tying the bitter end of an anchor or eye of a tender line, the weaved (Alex) knot! Excellent video!!!
Wow, I been watching many many how to tie bowline knot and thank you for your instruction. It's best example I seen so far with good amount of explains and slow motions on the climax moments. Others show too fast on the important parts and say it's easy, but not to newbies.
Thank you again, it's best one so fare and I finally got it!
Great instructional video...I finally got it..
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LOVE this video! So thorough, Thanks Ryan, and such a beautiful hand model!! LOL keep it up.
DUDE!! Yours is the 5th video I watched to learn this, and you make it so simple! Great job, and thanks so much!
A very comprehensive video! Especially appreciate you showing all the things that can go wrong, some of which may look like a bowline, but not a true bowline.
Nicely done! This is the clearest and simplest demo I've seen. Got it first try. Thank you for posting.
Thank you guys for this video! I’ve watched multiple videos on how to do this but kept screwing it up. Yours is the most concise and helpful! Keep up the good work!
Well done. Your demonstration is so clear and helpful. I just used it to teach some kids how to tie a bowline. Thank you.
Brilliant! Thank you so much! Completely agree that usually it is taught and illustrated from the "wrong" angle, so you dont get to learn the way you actually need to use it!
Your fast method (rotating wrist) helped me out a lot! Thank you.
This is great. I love a deep dive into something that 'everyone already knows'. I like the 'Alex' knot as a simple way of keeping the tail out of the way and finished off more cleanly than a normal bowline.
Thanks! Appreciate it! Yeah, there's lots of other really short bowline videos, but like you said, most stay "shallow."
Mijn mening over de Alex knot is dat je misschien een sterkere knoop hebt maar hij zal vlugger breken juist naast de knoop de breeksterkte zal volgens mij minder zijn dan 66 procent
Great video! Thanks for the sailing specific take on learning how to tie the bowline. I had seen other videos with the rabbit and tree, but I could never get it to work when I tried tying it to something.
i would say, especially for sailors, you should practice tying this knot in a clock wise and counter clock wise way. As well as using your right hand dominant and left hand dominant. Sometimes variables do not allow you to tie a knot the way you built muscle memory for. For example, if your standing line is running away from you vs. toward you (like in your video)
Hey guys, I made this video to hopefully help the newbies coming up. To the best of my knowledge everything I'm saying is correct but feel free to let me know if I said something wrong and what I could do better in the future for how to videos!! Thanks!
Jessica and Ryan Adventures thank you for making these video its a good video and very informative
What people tend to leave out of the Rabbit analogy is that the tree needs to come out from UNDER the ground... very important.
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and... it needs to start with an overhand loop!
@@tanguerochas If someone needs the "Rabbit" analogy to learn a bowline they won't have a clue what "overhand loop" means.
The knot you tie is a left-handed one, mirror image to the one tied in the hands in front of you.
Ryan. Best example of how to learn this knot I have ever seen !! Thanks.
Grrrreat video. Been sailing for years but still learned something. Had never figured out the slipknot version. Thank you!
Thank you, I use to do this when I was a kid ,and you make it alot easier then how I was taught.
The meat is at 3:50 to 4:22. Good video, lots of explanation about the mechanics of the knot and troubleshooting. Helped me quite a bit thanks!
THANK YOU. I watched many youtube videos about the bowline and they were all framed the opposite way. When I actually went out kayaking last weekend, I went to tie my boat around a tree and froze because the angle was all wrong. This video is what I wish I found before my kayaking trip.
This is the best instruction for the bowline knot, for a newbie like me. I have looked at videos and asked an ex military man physically show me how to do it at a picnic. I practiced it several times, but like Ryan said it was demonstrated backwards in a hypothetical example, so when it came time for me to use it, I couldn’t do it. I know it’s partially my fault, because I’ve never had a chance to use it. So your instructions were awesome. There were some comments that said it took over 19 minutes for this knot, but this video was perfect for newbies like me, (actually the first knot took under 2 minutes), thanks Ryan, good job!
Greetings from Ireland. Excellent tutorial Ryan..The clockwise instruction is very handy for the bowline. Well done and many thanks!
I learned how to make the bowline on this video, you explain it so well. I’ve watched other vids but this is by far the best!!!
Sir, I’m over 50 and I like knots as well. You taught me my first knot. I went to Lowe’s and bought three feet of nylon and I am in the game! That I you very much for you me great dirt lesson. Now on to the second grade! Yay!
2 Great books to have. Ashley book of knots which has 6,000. Knots and The riggers apprentice by Bryan Toss
You've done an excellent tutorial- thanks!
Especially like your comment about "muscle memory", never heard that before, but so right on! Thank you for your time to do these videos, you may have saved or will save a life some day because of them.
Ryan, I’ve struggled with knits, but your video and explanations are so clear. I can do a bowline and I’m thrille
This is the best lesson I've ever seen on tying a bowline... I can do them with my eyes closed now, literally. I learned with the step by step methods, the rabbit thing, from sailors -- it never stuck... But the clockwise concept totally clicked and muscle memory seems to work much better than 'steps'... thanks!
Ryan you give so many good tips, People who do knot videos on UA-cam tend to way "overthink" this simple knot. The best locking variation, 15:30 in my opinion comes from the Rock climbers community, it is actually called the Scott's locking bowline... the "over under over" of the tag end? Excellent video! Probably the very best advice you can give is just
"Pick one method" and learn it very very well.. Since the bowline is considered a Life Saving knot in the case of a man overboard situation, you cannot afford to be fiddling around trying to remember how to tie it correctly when seconds count.. So Again thank you I really appreciate your video with the "trouble shooting"..
Of all the tutorials of the bowline knot offered yours was the one that I could follow and learn from. Thank you for simplifying this procedure for a novice like me.
great presentation with explanation of possible mistakes. There are other bowline variations but I like the one you presented.
THANK YOU! I learned the slip know version and for me it is so easy. But I never had seen anyone else do it that way. A very well done video!
Thanks ...the easiest way I've found. I just pulled a bite through, to make it quick release 👍
Excellent, clear demonstration with explanation and repetition. Thank you very much.
Very instructive video. Best bowline instructions I've found by far. Thanks!
Hey thanks buddy from England, that was a good video mate. You spoke clearly and made the demos very simple. Good stuff.
I've always had trouble with this simple knot. I've been doing it right since watching this video a while ago. Just found it again and had to comment how successful it is in teaching this knot.
Thanks for this video! I had watched several others and just got confused. In your video, you were actually tying to something, that made all the difference in my understanding! I've got it now! Thanks again!
I've watched so many videos on how to tie this, and I only got it first try with yours. Thank you!
very helpful information! I really like your troubleshooting section. Thank You!
The best explanation by far!!!!!. Thanks for taking the time to create the video!
Changing the perspective is HUGE! Thanks!
I really like the Alpine bowline when I need a secure bowline. I’ve been known to even secure the running end of my alpine bowlines with a double overhand, but us climbers are a bit paranoid like that. Never seen the Alex-knot version until this video, however. I like it! Thanks for sharing; great vid.
The best video and the one with a practical use explained. Thank you so much for sharing!
You really made this easy ,THANK YOU.
This is a good one. Nice demo of the correct way to tie a bowline. Best one I've seen.
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Great tutorial. Hello from Las Vegas USA.
I’ve watch videos on this knot and as simple as it is this is the best video I’ve watch and more important the penny has dropped I’ve learnt something. Thanks
It’s great video, especially related to sailing. Thanks
Best demo ever! Thank you!
If you listen, you can't fail!
Thanks Ryan, taking ASA101 in March. This video was helpful!
Best instructions along with cautions about bowline. Excellent job...thank you!
Good video - you've explained it very well. Keep it up.
Best explanation of this knot I've seen out of at least a half dozen videos
Thanks for FINALLY explaining to many, that there is a 'left-handed' bowline knot! I learned to tie my bowlines like that years ago, in the military, for one SIMPLE reason...when using hemp ropes, if you tie with the 'tail' to the inside of the bite, OFTEN, the load will rub against the tail until it UNTIES YOUR BOWLINE!!! If you tie a 'left-handed' bowline (7:50), this puts the tail to the outside of the burden bite, and as a result, YOU WILL NOT HAVE A LOOSENED bowline! You also don't have to remember 30-knots to do work, being as with the left-handed bowline, you only really need 5-total knots to do ALL general work (Reef, Bowline, butterfly, figure-8, sheet)...oh, yeah, and a trucker's hitch (I really consider that a 'rigging' more than a simple knot, though.
One of the very best demonstrations I've seen in years. I've tied mine really fast using the marlin hitch method; but I've deconstructed the knot over and over again in order to find out what is common. When you say that the knot continues in the same direction; that is something that I noticed after tying and untying it over and over again countless times.
To make me remember things... I relate them to things I already know well... this looks like a 6 or a P (When tying the Carrick Bend).
But again... the whole video was super easy to follow and now I understand why you tie it the way that you do; since it was INVENTED by the sailors - no? Seems to make sense that you should learn to tie it in practice the way you'd need to tie it when on a boat and you don't have a lot of time to mess around.
Works for me every time thank you very much
Very well explained i struggle with knots and i can now do a bowline thanks
I used to struggle with tying a bowline around an object back in the day (when I was in a situation that required me to tie it away from myself) but figured it out on my own. Thank you very much for making a video on it & explaining! Blows my mind how more people don’t touch up on this, because it can definitely be confusing. If you can remember that it has to be an underhand loop instead of an overhand, & the loop has to be on the inside (facing towards the tail) you’ll never be confused again! FYI: You can use the overhand loop when tying the Slipknot/snap method, but I’d stick with the underhand for muscle memory, because it can look funky if you are used to throwing your rope around in only one direction. (Clockwise or counter)
I've viewed at least a dozen videos. This is the excellent! Thank you, Ryan.
I agree. After watching other videos this is the best clearest, easiest video to follow. Thanks.
Good video, I was given a sailboat with all new hardware to be installed including new sail and mast, I have never done any kind of sailing or rigging, I do good to tie my shoes!
God bless you for doing such a great job explaining I finally got it 👍
Thank you. Now I know how to tie this knot. My dearest. Husband tried to teach me but I just could not get it. Very frustrating. But by watching your video I got it in 5 minutes. You're a very good teacher. Thanks.
best explanation of any knot i´ve seen so far!
the slip knot version is the best thing ever. cant wait to show it to the rope techs!
Great job explaining it!
No more rabbits! Totally agree with everybody - the best explanation ever. It actually makes sense while I’m doing it.
This is the best instructional video I've seen on this knot. Thanks
I have watched a few other videos and this one is the beat and simplest one thank you
That is the clearest explanation I have ever seen, never could see what rabbits and trees had to do with it. Those sort of mnemonics I always find confusing, might as well just remember the thing itself. The slip knot method just makes it so fast and easy - and I'am left handed so always have to correct the explanations!
Thank-you. I won’t say how many times I watched video but I got there in the end!
I finally got it!!!! I've been practicing what seems like forever now. Thank you!
Works good for me. Thank you.
Thank you for making the Bowline simple!
Best video I have seen on this. I love the two variations. I have seen this same information many places but never put together this well. I can tell you are an engineer like me. My wife and I have a lot of parallels with you guys.
Thanks! Yeah, I'm a software developer. I know what you mean, I can sound out other engineers too sometimes just by the way we talk. Thanks for the comment!
I was shown both rabbit and loop method. I agree completely useless for boating. Ican now tie a bowline properly on board. Thank you very much, just subscribed.
Kind regards from Scotland
really simple and helpful - I kept pulling the loop the wrong way until I watched this - thanks really good!!
Good job until now I thought I was knot challenged but I was just confused with the rabbit scenario. Thanks so much for sharing.
As a new sailor and learning the necessary knots, your instruction on the bowline was by far and no doubt the best! I appreciate your help so much. I really dislike that old rabbit and tree version you mentioned too 😂 fair winds!
You covered everything extremely helpful thank you
I've had a lot of trouble tying a bowline like this. The always clockwise method is just what I needed. Thanks for posting it and nicely done tutorial, sir.
I like the way you describe and help old newbees with the Bowline
Brilliant. Much better than other clips here on youtube
Thanks. I learned the rabbit comes out of the hole method, but always got flumixed when it came time to tie a bowline in real life on a sailboat. This looks like a much more practical method of doing it.
Excellent! Great detail in real-life situation. More video please :)
Well done. Very good video. Thanks for it.
Its Knot a tumor. LAUOUA! lol Great video thank you so much. I first learned this knot practicing tying down Aircraft in A&P school we spent alot of time on it. Many people struggled and my instructor used the rabbit hole tree analogy and you're right it is indeed confusing. I recently have decided to start learning knots for survival/outdoor purposes and was struggling ,as I would get it right and then try it again only to screw up. Your slow and easy video explains it well and I can now tie it without fail both cowboy, and bowline style with secure tail.
Best bowline video I've seen. Thanks
This is the best education I have ever seen on tying a bow line - I think I understand it now; and if you can teach me, then you are good!
lol. thanks!
Thanks Ryan much the best explanation and demonstration of the bowline😀😀😀
The best explanation of a bowline. I forgot every other illustration but this one is unforgettable.
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