I am beginning to think that simplicity has gone out of the window in an effort to devise a completely different knot which is overcomplicated for everyday use. If the bowline is going to be placed under so much pressure that the end will slip out I think I'll simply use something else. For most purposes the round turn bowline is more than secure enough (and if I want to secure the end I'll just tie an overhand around one leg of the loop).
"Everyday use" depends on the user(s) --a rockclimber must
consider such safeguards for the
bowline, and not because
of the activity so much as the nature of the line. There is
more intractable line for
bowline security, too.
Now, some of the shenanigans above do go overboard into
a sea of complexity & tedium in tying (I'm abashed to look
at an old page of my initial ideas!) --one hopes for a simple
tying method, where the security is added in an easy step.
The common
Yosemite bowline is fairly easily tied (and all
the more so, if taking the tail the opposite-to-common way
around that eye leg, creating an
overhand vice
fig.8 ) as
are the "Janus" variations; the "end-bound" wrap and tuck
come relatively easily, too.
Tying off the tail with an
overhand hitch begs the question as
to how
that knot can be secure, itself; so, many recommend
a
strangle (though not by its proper name

). I've played
around with incorporating an
overhand in the collar as a way
to nip that adequately to arrest loosening, and this
o.'s tail then
is tucked through the central
turNip --nothing terribly quick to do,
but for climbing, quickness is seated while surety has the floor!
(This variation looks much like Xarax's "Columbus", but the
overhandis (at) the collar, with the goal getting an overall knot locking
similar to a
harness bend --
half-hitch vs.
overhand. )
--dl*
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