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trIPLe BOwLIne
A fixed triple loop at the end of a line, creating
a more secure emergency “chair.”
The triple bowline is no more than a basic bowline tied sizes. This allows the knot to be used as a chair (with each
on a long bight. Since it is tied on a bight, it can be tied of two loops around someone’s legs and the third loop
in the middle of a rope. With a fair amount of painstaking around the torso under the arms).
effort, the size of each loop can be adjusted to differing As with other knots used as chairs, the triple bowline
Triple Bowline: Step 1 Triple Bowline: Step 2
KnOtS YOU need: BOat KnOtS
Make a long bight in the working end of the Take the doubled end up through the loop and
rope and form a loop as if beginning to tie a around behind the standing part.
basic bowline (see page 62).
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