I heard that the bowline is king of knots , the most strong one
Note that these don't necessarily imply each other.
but after looking posts in this forum, just find that bowline is said to be weak,
and there're lots of ways to make it more secure more complicated
just wondering whether you've got a conclusion on which is best or recommended bowline
I don't recall "weak" being part of its resume, but YMMV
over various factors. Look further at the forum posts and
you should understand that "best" is a dubious claim, at
best

. Different circumstances will often call for different
solutions; clearly, one cannot tie any of the elaborately
extended-for-security variations quickly as one can the
original --which one might need to do, and
then one might
seek some further security with an add-on knot.
And one should understand that "strong" is an attribute in need
of careful consideration --it might be that a steady, slow-pull
break test gives a different ranking of "strengths" than would
a dynamic loading, than would a long series of cyclical loadings,
than would actual use & abuse.
--dl*
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