The Alpine Butterfly Knot is an essential midline knot for outdoor enthusiasts, climbers, and rescue professionals, offering ...

Commercial fishermen use lines, or ropes, for a variety of purposes. Boat anchors, nets and buoys all need to be secured and safely managed. A working knowledge of knots is a necessity. If you open a ...

Learn three different ways to tie a bowline, the King of Knots. We will show you how to tie a bowline knot diagram. The bowline (pronounced bo-lin) is the single most important knot for all outdoors ...

From bow ties and shoelaces to sailing boats and climbing ropes, knots are not only very useful for our daily lives, but for mathematics too. Researchers have reported a new mathematical operation to ...

Knotted threads secure buttons to shirts. Knots in ropes attach boats to piers. You can find knots in shoestrings, ties, ribbons, and bows. But even without Boy Scouts or sailors, knots would be ...

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Pity the double bowline--it's gotten a terrible rap.starting in 1989 when Lynn Hill took a 70-foot groundfall when her partly tied bowline pulled free of her harness. But, still, for decades thiis was ...