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Liam
Liam
10:50 AM
Are we talking about the same knot here?
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A: How to tie an EBSB bowline?

LiamAs always Animated knots by Grog covers it. If you check out the bowline page there is a picture of how to add the "yosemite tie off" source So it looks like you make another loop around the base and then pass it up though the top loop. Note the warning though: Yosemite Tie-off: A widely...

 
 
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Aravona
Aravona
12:41 PM
@Liam no idea, the only knots I tie are on my shoelaces :P
 
 
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gerrit
gerrit
5:29 PM
Having the same frustration as last summer… the hard-to-believe inaccessibility of public, open swimming spots in (southern) England.
 
 
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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
7:09 PM
Do you mean inland, @gerrit?
Or coastal?
I always thought you could just swim anywhere like in Scotland.
 
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
7:26 PM
I think your solution to finding places that aren't an hour away will involve moving house to somewhere next to a lake or the sea :-)
 
imsodin
imsodin
@gerrit It would never even have occurred to me that swimming could be prohibited anywhere unless signed explicitly or implicitly obvious (cordoned off, nature reserve, ...), but maybe that's because I don't live in the UK :P
 
 
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gerrit
gerrit
9:53 PM
@RoryAlsop In inland lakes
I did end up finding a nice lake nearby, Bear Wood Lake. On one end of the lake was a sign "swimming strictly prohibited, dangerous water", on the other end a wooden platform with a metal ladder into the lake…
Perhaps it is telling that the only other people swimming there were Polish. It appears it is not really a tradition in English culture to swim in lakes?
 
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
10:42 PM
@gerrit it really is a tradition in the uk to swim anywhere and everywhere. Unfortunately there is a new tradition building up around "health and safety legislation"
England does have a strong trespass law, so if the lakes are on private property then you aren't going to be allowed.
 

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