Editing Bowline (section)

==Tying==
[[File:Bowline tying.png|thumb|upright=2|Tying a bowline]]
[[File:Lightning bowline load.png|thumb|Lightning method, tied on a ring. Pull per the blue arrows.]]

A [[mnemonic]] used to teach the tying of the bowline is to imagine the working end of the rope as a rabbit.

* 1,2 – a loop is made into the standing part which will act as the rabbit's hole
* 3 – the "rabbit" comes up the hole,
* 4 – goes round the tree (standing part) right to left
* 5 – and back down the hole

This can be taught to children with the rhyme: "Up through the rabbit hole, round the big tree; down through the rabbit hole and off goes he."

There is a potential with beginners to wrongly tie the bowline. This faulty knot stems from an incorrect first step while tying the rabbit hole. If the loop is made backwards so that the working end of the rope is on the bottom, the resulting knot will be the [[Eskimo bowline]], looking like a sideways bowline, which is also a stable knot.
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