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Purpose
This delightfully named knot is intended to form a fixed loop in the standing part
of a rope used as a safety line or tether, to which a person or item of equipment
may then be clipped. It will withstand a pull from any direction.
Tying
It is quickly tied in the bight as shown (figures 1–2) but must then be worked
carefully into shape before it is tightened (figure 3).
Knot lore
With a background spent in European mountaineering resorts, this is a classy old
dame. “If the bowline is the King of Knots, this must surely be the Queen,’’
wrote John Sweet in his book Scout Pioneering (1974).
