Bulin is a knot that the ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew. It is relatively simple (a knowledgeable person will tie it in seconds) and is strong (reliable).
Bulin is a knot, which is often called a bow knot. If people who are far from marine terminology are asked about the origin of the word, then they will most likely call the noun “arbor”. To some extent, they will be close to reality. But the sea arbor doesn’t look at all the way a man who had nothing to do with ships could imagine.
This is a small platform in the form of a wooden board, designed to lift the sailor on the mast or to lower it during repair (painting) work. And this board, as you might guess, is attached to the cable by a gazebo.
So where did the name "pancake" come from? The knot was so called by the British. The term itself means tackle, pulling the side of the box from the direct lower tier. And it fits in with the very “bulin knot” that we are considering today.
Indeed, it makes admirers of those who encounter viscous nautical knots and cables. Bulin is an ancient and wonderful knot. Archaeologists argue that the mastery of his tying owned another three thousand years before our era.
The British to this day call the bowlin the king of knots. In terms of the number of positive properties, it really surpasses its "brothers." And if you take into account the scope of its application (sea nodes, tourist), the bowline really can be considered royal.
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Bulin, despite its amazing compactness, contains at the same time elements of several knots: weaving, simple, straight and half-bayonet. Their certain combination gives a kind of universality. The bulin-knot knits surprisingly simple, does not slip and does not damage the cables. Even with strong tension, it will not tighten “tightly”. The pancake will not untie itself, but if necessary, it can be "dissolved" almost instantly.
The main purpose of this unit lies in the strapping of a person under the armpits with a cable when lifting to a height, lowering overboard, etc. This is insurance. And reliable.
You can insert a gazebo into non-tightening hinges. The knot perfectly connects cables of any diameters (including vegetable with steel). But it can also serve instead of fire. Convenient for mooring. It is convenient when replacing worn pieces of cable. Among all the methods of linking, gazebo nodes are the most reliable.
The ability to quickly tie them around your own waist can always come in handy. It will be great if you learn to do this with a continuous movement, with one hand and in the dark. How to tie a bowline knot?
First step . Take the root end of the rope (cable) with your left hand, and with your right hand we enclose the running end around the waist, behind us.
Step Two We take the running end with the right brush and, stepping back from the edge about 10 cm, hold it in a fist.
Step Three Take the root end in the left hand and extend the arm. The cable should stretch slightly. With the right hand, in which the running end of the rope is clamped, we bend around the root end of our cable from top to bottom, towards ourselves, then up (already from ourselves). We make the movement of the brush so that it does not fall into the loop completely.
Step Four We enclose the running end around the root end stretched to the left and intercept it with the right hand (index and thumb).
Step Five We pull out the right brush from the loop and at the same time we push the running end into the small loop. The knot around your waist is tied.
Now this explanation may seem like the height of complexity. However, as soon as you tie your first knot of pancake, there will come an understanding that in fact there are not so many manipulations and there is really nothing difficult. A couple of days of training will help you tie a knot to the touch without looking.