Your imaged left- & right-most knots are the same,
IMO, though right-most is yet to take a geometry
pending load --i.e., the returning eye leg can fall
either before or behind the tail (and the left-most
image shows it doing the latter). In the one case,
the tail then can become wedged/jammed against
the collar and … jammed. YMMV.
In some cases, it seems that the Eskimo BWL can
also capsize --another YMMV situation.
Dan, what means YMMV please?
About returning eye leg in front or behind.
Do I get you right? You mean that Knot A is prone to jamming, Knot B less so?
“YMMV” = “Your Mileage May Vary” which is said as
a general note that one should expect different results
per situation (to some extent).
My remark was to Agent_Smith’s trio of Eskimo BWL
images --that left & right were the same (BUT which point
to different dressings & setting of even this sameness into
knots that can have differing behavior.
Your Knot_A looks quite NON-jamming, and pretty nice.
As for an earlier assertion above --that
“All ‘Bowlines’ can easily be loosened by starting at the ‘collar’”–,
doesn’t ring true, for me. If there is a loosenable collar, that’s
certainly a compelling thing to work on! But in one version
of a secure-when-slack BWL with opposed-bights collars,
it’s less than easy to loosen a hard set such knot, and so leads
to the version where the tail can act as a lever to pull in
some SPart to start the loosening of the collar-bight legs.
As for the good ol’ regular BWL, it always amuses to me to
read the “never jams” praise and then for the --in same book–
Water BWL comes its reason d’etre of avoiding a hard-to-untie
regular one!