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- A commonly used knot to tie a loop in the end of a rope. It has the
advantage of not jamming, compared to some other loop forming knots (for
example when using an overhand knot on a large bight to form a loop).
- Form a small loop (the direction is important), and pass the free
end of the knot up through the loop, around behind the standing part of
the rope, and back down through the loop.
- A chant used by many to remember this knot is "The rabbit comes out
of the hole, round the tree, and back down the hole again", where the
hole is the small loop, and the rabbit is the running end of the rope.
- In the same way that a Left
Handed Sheet bend is a Sheet
bend that has the running end of the rope coming out of the wrong
side of the knot, a cowboy bowline is a bowline that also has the
running end of the rope coming out of the wrong side of the knot. It
suffers the same problems as the left handed sheet bend.
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