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> Do you have an URL for it?
No, I got it via Interlibrary Loan
> The other side of the vehicle has a clove hitch to anchor the rope to the tie rail.
Exactly. Although I learned these knots without learning their names.
What's interesting is how they are spelled differently, sometimes using phonetic spelling instead of the correct spelling. I have seen bowline spelled "bolin" and bight spelled "bite."
This is from Ashley:
Captain John Smith says of the knot: "The Boling Knot is so firmely made and fastened by the bridles into the creengles of the sailes, they will breake, or the saile split before it will slip." But no knot is safe that is not properly drawn up, which will explain probably the following contradictory statement from Alston's Seamanship of 1871: "With a heavy strain a bowline knot often capsizes." However, it is a fact that no knot is safe except under reasonable conditions. Properly tied in ordinary rope, there is little or no danger of a BOWLINE KNOT's capsizing before the breaking point of the rope itself is reached. It is so good a knot that the sailor seldom uses any other LOOP KNOT aboard ship.
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