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Triple loop bowline
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If two loops spread the load better than one, then three loops will surely Strength
spread it even better. That’s the logic for this cunning triple loop. What’s Security
more, you don’t even need to learn a new knot to tie it. Observant readers Diffi culty Tying
Diffi culty Untying
will note that it’s nothing more than a bowline (page 112) tied not in the
Usefulness
bight, but with the bight. Read on...

1 Put a bight in the end of the line, 2 Put an overhand loop in the bight, 3 Pass the end of the bight through
allowing enough slack to form the doubling up the line to do so. the loop. (Remember the rabbit
three loops. analogy: here they are peeping out
of the hole.)

4 Pass the bight around the doubled- 5 Pass the bight back through 6 Pull the bight through to make the
up standing part, allowing plenty of the loop. (The rabbits are back in third loop. Adjust the loops to the
slack. (Here they are running the hole.) desired sizes, and tighten the knot.
around a pair of trees.)

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