I can still tie a
bowline, although I've never found a use for it.
Complete the system by clipping the line and float to the anchor line through pre-tied or spliced loops, or fasten it directly to the anchor line with a
bowline knot.
Luckily we found him clinging to a
bowline like a large crab, teeth chattering.
He loops the other end and fashions a
bowline to secure it, a knot he's learned at Boy Scout camp.
Kolff is a managing partner at London-based investment and business advisory boutique
Bowline Capital Partners, while Kawkabani has a previous stint as chief investment officer of MENA equity investments at Franklin Templeton.
These usually include a simple thumb knot (also used as a stopper knot), a granny knot (two thumb knots jammed together), a reef knot (two opposite-handed thumb knots - easier to undo), a slip knot loop (a thumb knot with a loop), a double slipped reef knot (a bow for tying shoe-laces), a simple necktie knot (technically, a topsail halyard bend!) and often a
bowline loop, a clove hitch and a few more you remember from some youth organisation or a hobby you once had.
Experts said he had probably used a
bowline knot rather than a figure of eight, which was more likely to slip unless a stopper knot was tied, the inquest heard.
I tied a loose
bowline knot around pole #2 with the box secured on top and pulled it all up vertical next to pole #11 had stuck in the barrel.