Up the hole, round the tree and back down the hole again
The bowline takes its name from a rope that was used on square sails during the days of barques and brigantines.The other day I got to reading an old book I loved when I was young:, by Arthur Ransome. It’s part of the Swallows and Amazons series. The books revolve around four siblings – John, Susan, Roger and Titty Walker – and their adventures messing about in sailboats.is set on the English coast. The kids are left alone on a friend’s boat, the Goblin, and the anchor drags.
People have been tying bowlines for centuries, maybe millennia. It takes its name from a rope that was used on square sails during the days of barques and brigantines. Sailors would employ it to secure a docking line to a bollard on the pier; connect two heavy towing ropes, or hawsers; and even lower a man over the side on a “monkey rope.”
I taught it many times when I was a not-very-good sailing instructor: The rabbit goes up the hole, around the tree and back down the hole again. On the dock at our sailing camp, I used to lay out a long heavy rope and get the kids to compete for fastest bowline. One of
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