Greetings All from the Arctic Circle,
Wow, good show! --and here's to hoping it returns to being
arctic (and not warmingly other).
I have either rediscovered this knot or discovered it.
At your age you shouldn't be suffering such confusion! Or, if you mean "first of any mind",
then try
http://www.mytreelessons.com/user/DBY%20Layout%20smaller.gifto remove that doubt. But such a knot is pretty well knowable by formula, by a simple
combination of known components (e.g., one can
Yosemite all sorts of bowlines
--whoopee).
Here's a better(-looking) knot: take that end the opposite way (to wrap...) from the
Yosemite direction, around both legs of the eye, and tuck it back down through
the center of the knot (through those "double" turns of the SPart). That puts a third
diameter in the central crush zone, enlarging the curve of the SPart, and seems to
me thus to have a better rationale for bumping strengths in various materials.
It is called the Double Yosemite Bowline.
Nomenclature rules would prefer to re-order that to YDB--Ying the DB.
I wish to know How strong this knot is.
Still asking this question as though strength is a characteristic of a knot schema?
Hasn't that notion been battered enough to generate a better thinking, by now, here?!
Crain Connally is big on the YoBowl as being strong, but I simply don't see how/why,
and haven't seen data to help support this contention. And, usually, test data comes
with such scant explanation of testing & knot geometry as to leave one guessing.
--dl*
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