How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... Pete Knight Pete's Outdoor Blog How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight This may form a potential replacement to the now discredited Bowline-on-the-Bight. We are calling this a Double-Bowline-on-the-Bight, or DBoB for short. First form a loop in a bight of rope as if you were about to tie an Overhand Knot Then form a second turn as if you were going to form a Capuchin Knot 1 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12 How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... Pass the loop of the bight up the two turns to produce a Capuchin Knot 2 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12 How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... Now invert the loop down over the knot body. It won’t matter which way you do this. 3 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12 How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... Push the loop towards the body of the knot to ease out 2 strands from the back of the knot Continue to pull these 2 strands and slide the loop up to jam against the body of the knot. You 4 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12 How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... have now formed 2 loops with the 2 strands that you pulled through the top of the knot. Dress the knot and it should be something like this…… 5 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12 How to tie a Double Bowline on the Bight | Pete Knight http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/knots/how-to-tie-a-double-bowli... 6 of 6 13/01/2013 18:12.