Editing Running bowline (section)

{{Short description|Knot}}
{{Knot-details
| name=Running bowline
| image=Running bowline.svg
| names= 
| type= running
| strength= 
| origin= Ancient
| related= [[Bowline]], [[noose]]
| releasing= Non-jamming
| uses= Fishing out floating objects that have fallen overboard. Tightening the squaresail to the yard in high winds.
| caveat= None.
| abok_number= #1117, #2071
}}

The '''running bowline''' is a [[knot]] consisting of a [[bowline]] looped around its own [[standing end]] to create a [[noose]]. 

The running bowline is strong and secure. It slides easily and can be undone just as simply.

{{Quote|text=1117. The <small>RUNNING BOWLINE KNOT</small> is referred to by name, in ''A Four Years' Voyage'' by G. Roberts (1726), as the "<small>RUNNING BOWLING KNOT</small>." It is the knot universally used at sea when a <small>NOOSE </small>is called for. According to an old nautical authority it "is used for throwing over anything out of reach, or anything under water." Any lumber that has dropped overboard or any rigging that has gone adrift is recovered by its means. <ref>{{ cite book | first = Clifford W | last = Ashley | title = The Ashley Book of Knots | publisher = Doubleday |year = 1944 | page = 204 }}{{ISBN?}}</ref>|sign=|source=}}