Myrtle Hitch not in ABOK?

[Dan_Lehman]

Why isn't the Anti-Bowline just called a Sheet Bend Bowline?

"anti-bowline" is my term for a subset of  *bowlines*
--by which I mean those eyeknots in which the SPart makes
a loop (circle) that nips other parts and feeds into the eye--
in which the tail enters the SPart's loop from the other side
than it does for the bowline (#1010)
--akin to "anti-cyclone" and relevant "anti-clockwise"
indications of direction.  So, you see that it's primarily
a general classification, not some particular knot
(and that "bowline" is used in three senses : general
of all eyeknots with a central nipping loop; the subset of
those in which the tail enters this loop from the one side;
and the particular, venerable knot that Ashley numbers "1010"!).

But were one to look for one particular "anti-bowline",
I'd say its one in which the tail makes a simple loop through
the SPart's loop, and so unlike any sheet bend.


--dl*
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[Ruby]

I like this knot , easy to tie, just like a sheet bend, very difficult to undo, with my soft thin rope

[Dan_Lehman]

As I've said elsewhere, I don't trust this knot's security
when slack.  But I've some 8mm? marine kernmantle
cord in which a similar knot was tied --symmetric, the
anti-bowline with tail coiling away from the eye, so the
same if loading the tail and leaving the S.Part free--,
and it seems to have jammed well enough.  (It's quite
surprising, from what I've seen of commercial-fishing
rigging, that the tails weren't hog-ring stapled to their
S.Parts --damNear all such things are, gratuitously, IMO.!)

My surmise is that the tyer used this knot in preference
to the overhand loop because it's "PET" ("post-eye
tiable --i.e., one can form the eye and then make the
knot!) and jams satisfactorily.  After the cordage gets out
into the drink and shrinks (nylon) and loses new-condition
slickness, staying tied is more assured.  But one does have
to cross that bridge safely, first.


--dl*
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[Ruby]

Very interesting. So if the rope size is big and hard stiff then the knot is  easy to undo by pushing spart as a pole. My rope is  only 3-4mm and very soft and not slippery, so it seems just ok for me.

Size  ， material . Load....

Knots can behave remarkably differently in different media:  a rope's
size, flexibility, and surface qualities (including structure--laid
or braided) determine a knot's effect; tape, with its flat cross
section, is quite structurally different than round rope.  Rope can be
silky, slippery soft, or agedly frictive and stiff; it can be steel-like
inelastic or stretchy.  And even with the same qualities, in proportion
to diameter, relative to manual strength large and very small dia.s can
make differences (e.g., it won't be a man who realizes the elasticity of
a mooring hawser!).