# Identification: Bowline variant

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**Created:** [23 February 2008 16:56 UTC](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/identification-bowline-variant/2963 "2008-02-23T16:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/u/Dan_Lehman)\
**Post date:** [23 February 2008 18:57 UTC](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/identification-bowline-variant/2963/2 "2008-02-23T18:57:27Z")

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You picked an ambiguous image of the knot and left us to guess–as we’d just been  
doing with the Fig.9 loopknot–what the loading profile was (i.e., which ends go to  
form the eye, which is loaded as SPart, and which is the free end)! Your URLinked  
site provides the answer, but the initial ambiguity allows some observations.

My initial reaction was that the eye was at the top (the parallel ends), and  
so the knot was no “bowline” but a Fig.8-based knot, Ashley’s #1043 of [u][ABOK](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/9845).  
In fact, though, the eye is at the bottom, and what the Wikipedia entry about  
is the so-called “Yosemite Bowline”. (Frankly, I think that there are better  
ways to secure the Bwl.) This is clearly shown by the main image–to wit:

> **[File:Bulin1.5.jpg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Bulin1.5.jpg)**
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(Why am I getting a big BLANK vs. the uploaded image??? --from ULR

> **[File:Bulin1.5.jpg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Bulin1.5.jpg)**
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I’m coding [i m g] … [/ i m g] ? )

# –dl\*

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