Double bowline with a bight of rope instead of the end. First, learn to tie the bowline by laying the working end on the standing part and twisting to form a loop (the "hole" that the rabbit comes out of). Wrap the loop once more around the working end. Then pass the working end behind the standing part and back down through the double loop. The double bowline is one of the typical tie-in knots used in climbing, along with the figure eight follow through and the Yosemite bowline. The advantage of the double bowline over the figure 8 is that it
USS Tom Bowline (1814) — only to be driven off by a gale. "Hornet" arrived five days later, but her landfall coincided with the appearance in the area of British brig-sloop . The two ships closed for action, and "Hornet" damaged "Penguin" seriously enough to warrant destruction of the Briton. The sighting of strange sail on the horizon hastened "Hornet's" burning of the prize, but apprehension turned to relief as the sails proved to be "Peacock" and "Tom Bowline" returning to Tristan da Cunha for the planned rendezvous. "Tom Bowline" embarked the "Penguin's" captive crew and took the prisoners to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.