Page 82 - Geoffrey Budworth, Jason Dalton "The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots"
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Triple loop bowline
Learn the common bowline (see page 63), then this version with three loops is easily tied. Each
loop can be adjusted to a different size, although it takes time and patience to do so; then the
knot can be used as an improvised chair sling for emergency rescues, or as a routine multipoint
anchorage for all kinds of boating, climbing, and pioneering activities.
Make a long bight in one end of the rope (1) and then, treating the doubled portion as it if were a
single line (2), form a small loop (3). Now tuck the working of the bight up through the loop, from
back to front (4), leaving sufficient slack to create large twin loops, and pass it from right to left
behind the twin standing parts of the line (5). Finally, tuck the working end of the bight back down
through the loop to act as the third loop (6).
