Which bowline is the best bowline? Put another way, if you could only tie ONE bowline variant for the entire rest of your life in every situation, and never tie any other as long as you live, which one would it be, and why?
(Obviously this would be an unrealistic and undesireable state of affairs, but limited choices clarify priorities, and I'm even more interested in people's reasons than I am in the knots they propose.)
In these sorts of queries, one could be learning as much
about responders (of their needs, or proclivities, or blindness
to how dum it is to finish every knot in the world with a Yosemite ...
).
Someone who needed a
TIB knot will be guided by
that (the
Yo-Bowl qualifies!), but maybe not others.
Someone who needs *quick*, well, probably won't want
the back'n'forth reeving duties for a
mirrored bowline(even if it IS the Greatest Bowline, leaving Gommers stumped
as to how to Yosemitize IT without being point-blank egregiously
short-listed for some prize like the IgNobel).
For me, it would be an end-bound single bowline without the Yosemite finish:
But if tied in bend-resistant cordage (I'm guessing that
you are playing with quite flexible stuff), the task of the
"end-binding" in going around just two diameters is
harder than were it surrounding the more circle-approximating
trio of diameters as for the
EBDB. (And, in tying elastic
cordage, one should anticipate the diameter diminution from
tension and set the knot extra tight, loading it as best one can
in the tying!)
The crowing superiority of the
EBDB is of course its
phonetic impact --not "ess bee" , egadz, who wants to utter that
in a crowd? No, "DEE BEE", as in --Mr. Grammar Man here--,
"Dee bee in dee bonnet is worth two in dee boot!".
Your welcome,
--dl*
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