Which Knot is the Knotiest?

[Jason Flare]

get a 2 ft section of 3/8 line (hint it is not rope) and practice while watching TV. I taught sailing lessons for a couple of seasons and you need to have something to teach on rainy days.....

I will take your comments under advisement and wait for a ruling from @CoastieRon

There are possibly three additional ropes that could be on a boat.

 

[AHM]

There are possibly three additional ropes that could be on a boat.

There's the one you piss up.

Lemme think...

There's the one for the soap.
And the cat.
(Rum, sodomy and the lash).

 

[Randy Lahey]

Since I don't know what I'm looking at in the photo, I'll go further afield with the Eldritch (Eldridge) Knot

or, dressed another way

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[CoastieRon]

This thread is awesome. The bowline is my favorite. I use it for everything, can do it behind my back with my eyes closed, have done it on a flooding boat underwater around a pumpcan handle more times than I would have liked. I even am an expert at the dreaded Dragon Bowline.......

 

[p..]

This thread is awesome. The bowline is my favorite. I use it for everything, can do it behind my back with my eyes closed, have done it on a flooding boat underwater around a pumpcan handle more times than I would have liked. I even am an expert at the dreaded Dragon Bowline.......

I believe you have misspelled draggin'...

My default knot is the 8, because I can always remember it under stress and can usually recall the appropriate variant for the circumstances. If I need a loop in a line and I don't have access to the ends, I default to the Alpine Butterfly because even if I tie it backwards it's still right.

 

[Picton]

This thread is awesome. The bowline is my favorite. I use it for everything, can do it behind my back with my eyes closed, have done it on a flooding boat underwater around a pumpcan handle more times than I would have liked. I even am an expert at the dreaded Dragon Bowline.......

Back in my days doing competitive one-rope bridges over mock rivers (don’t ask), I learned a knot my instructor called a “swing bowline” that produced a bowline by simply swinging the running end and moving your wrists in certain ways. The idea was to produce a bowline FAST.

I didn’t know how it worked at the time, but I could do it. I doubt I could anymore. Good times.

 

[AHM]

Back in my days doing competitive one-rope bridges over mock rivers (don’t ask), I learned a knot my instructor called a “swing bowline” ...

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