Sailors don’t enunciate the line of bowline (which can refer to the rope used to fasten a square sail to the ship’s bow, or a type of knot with a secure loop at the end). It’s “BOH-lin.” ...

This Bell Rope was made by William Houghton ... "Themopylae" when he was aged 13 the sister ship of the Cutty Sark. He was taught the skill of Knot making by the old sailors he worked with.

In 1954, an Egyptian archeologist discovered an immense, beautifully crafted ship buried ... planks together with rope made from a grass called halfa. (Here, an original knot tied by pharaonic ...