How To Tie The Bowline

Step 1: Make a bight at the end of the rope, with the standing part on the left and the working end on the right (glossary for terms)

Step 2: Make another bight in the standing part towards the working end

Step 3: Cross the bight you just made away towards the standing part

Step 4: Take the working end and put it through the bottom of the crossed bight

Step 5: Take the working end and put it behind the standing part

Step 6: Take the working end around the standing part and put it back through the bight keeping the working end parallel to the working end

Step 7: Pull the working end through

Finished bowline