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24 BOWLINE ON

THE BIGHT

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This is a good way of providing a loop
in the middle of a line or for making
an emergency bosun’s chair. It’s not
comfortable to sit in but it does work.

To form a Bowline on the Bight take
a bight of the line, apply it to the
standing part and twist in the normal
manner resulting in its sticking up
through a turn of the standing part.
The protruding ‘ear’ is pulled through,
spread out and dropped over the
two part main loop. It is brought up
above the turn of the standing part
and settled down. It then looks just
like a doubled Bowline but without
the usual end inside the main loop.

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