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Re: Learning the ropes
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:08:54 -0400
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> > As an 11-year-old, I was taught how to tie a bowline around my waist while hanging from a cliff...

I was shown this knot by a fisherman. He said you have to learn it in two directions: First, if someone throws you a rope and you tie a bowline to the end. Second, tying it on a rope you are about to throw to someone else. According to Ashley: "a BOWLINE is one of the most used knots aboard ship."

PLB

thinking: "nautical but nice"

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