The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Running Bowline

Sea Terms

A bowline made over the standing part of its own rope so that it will form a sliding noose. (See engraving.)

Racking, seizings, bends and fancy knots — round seizing, cat's-paw, running bowline, worming, diamond knots, sprit-sail sheet knot, two half-hitches, topsail halyard bend, shroud knots and midshipman's hitch
Racking, seizings, bends and fancy knots — round seizing, cat's-paw, running bowline, worming, diamond knots, sprit-sail sheet knot, two half-hitches, topsail halyard bend, shroud knots and midshipman's hitch
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