bowline knot

For example, if the result desired (objective) at the end of training is that participants should be able to tie a bowline knot in one minute, the natural question is "Why do they need to be able to do that?" If they are training to be fire fighters, when rescue is urgent, then the ability to tie such a knot at that speed would be necessary.

Now tie off your first length of rope to the load-bearing branch using a Two Half Hitches knot or Bowline knot (if you don't know these, get familiar; they're simple).

Here, firemen Cyril Beever, Walter Kaye and Ronald Cartwright practise tying a bowline knot.

The book claims 'there are few things more satisfying as tying a decent bowline knot when someone needs a loop', so the section on The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know seemed a good starting point.

Bowline knot. Rabbit goes through hole, looks around then goes back down hole again.

OUR final challenge of the day is to learn how to build a shelter, and Alice soon has us fluent in reef and bowline knots, ready to suspend a bivouac from two posts.

AND RELAX!OUR final challenge of the day is to learn how to build a shelter, and Alice soon has us fluent in reef and bowline knots, ready to suspend a bivouac from two posts.

HARDWORK: A 1930s made by Reef and bowline knots were probably the most important methods of tying ropes while the others were useful in certain applications.