Making Knots
“What shall we do with a drunken sailor? “Catch him by the leg with a runnin’ bowline.” So goes the old sea chantey, but do you know how to tie a running bowline? It is made in much the same way as that in which the ordinary bowline is made but the standing part, for example, the long end of the rope, is looped to form a noose when the knot is tied round it This is how it looks (a). The bowline on a bight (b) can be made in the middle of a rope.
Double the rope; make a small loop near the doubled end and pass the doubled end through it. The illustration will help you. The two loops of the knot may be used as a man-sling; he may sit in the double loop or the loops may be separated to place a leg in each. It can be used as a double man harness with one loop under each eb.oulder, and also as a barrel sling.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 21 (Supplement)
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173Making Knots Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 21 (Supplement)
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