It might be instructive to look at ABoK #1444.
Hi roo,
Great - thanks for the pointer. I'd been looking at loops and not bends in ABoK and elsewhere.
So I'm guessing this could be referred to as a 'single carrick loop'. Mystery solved.
I note that the single carrick bends are not very highly rated by Ashley (to put it politely)...
Russ
It would be more instructive to look for an eye knot in the
eye knot chapter --and esp. at #1033, the
carrick loop .
Note that Ashley ties it better re the point of exit for the tail;
his version puts it where it's strongly nipped, and IMO makes
a better curvature of the SPart.
There was some discussion of this knot under the
Conceptsforum, as it is to my mind a structure that falls into different
categories/groups/<?> depending upon how it is set. I.e.,
as you dress it --and esp. as you *double* it--, I would deem
it NOT of the
bowline family, but of a
crossing-knot-based
eye-knot family; but if you don't pull the tail's part so tight,
the (IMO defining) characteristic central nipping loop of the
bowline obtains and one has a knot that to my mind fits
into that family. --and, yes, some fuzzy boundary between.
Ashley is somewhat dismissive of it in suggesting that there
are simpler (!) knots, but I see value in it in its being
non-jamming (a
bowline can get jammed, in nylon rope
where diameter diminishes and the collar snugs ...) and
more resistant to capsizing (I've found numerous capsized
bowlines in trawler mooring lines (not sure why...?)!).
But it bulks *wider* than the
bowline and probably too
insecure-when-slack for many applications.
And for the bowlinesque dressing of this knot being *doubled*,
do so by making another turn of the SPart --doubling the
nipping loop--, not of the tail's completion (so, similar to what
has been called a
"round-turn" or "double bowline" ).
--dl*
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