Tying off onto the middle of a rope
Channel: David Richfield
Date: 2021-03-20

How to tie a rope securely onto an eye when you don't have access to the ends, using a bowline with a bight. 


Also demonstrating the trucker's hitch with a sheepshank and taking way too long to figure out a marlinespike hitch.

Note: it's not accurate to call a bowline tied in a bight a "bowline on a bight" like I did at 1:06 : that's a different knot.

I saw this method on page 22 of Mark Gommers's excellent Bowline Analysis  article (http://www.paci.com.au/knots.php)