In reply to various:
---"the reverse water knot or ring bend":
Yes, this is a good one, too.
And, with the eye *ring-loaded* (say, as a belay loop), it's a pure Ring Bend
(and not so easily untied).
---"where you tie a bowline through a Clove hitch":
Usually called the "Water Bowline".
Here's an extension to it, to increase security (and probably strength--not
that ropes/knots are breaking!): upon the end of this knot, take the end
around the leg of the eye coming from the Clove Hitch, and then go back
through the Clove so that the end now points away from you/the eye.
Essentially, you duplicate what you did initially--done at each end, i.e..
--all the less able for the end to fall out of a loose knot, and one more
diameter of material for the bowline nip to crunch around.
Do this with the COW/Girth hitch, and call it "Mirrored Bowlines"--for that's
the appearance of it. Don't know how if it's at all useful, but the *bridge*
between those loops of the Clove/Girth-Cow hitch can be pulled out a bit
to serve as a belay loop or whatever (and the functioning of the knot will
be like a Becket hitch (sheet bend to an eye).
---"Fig.9": not so easy to tie using the end. Also, consider the reverse
of this, which also looks good.
Further, this knot can be arranged into a SYMMETRIC form, and that can be
tied with an abbreviated finish (not by tracing ("re-weaving"), exactly). In
this form, it's able to be set snug against loosening, but doesn't further
tighten. (If you've access to Ashley's Book of Knots, the structure is like the
rope-joiner #1425 (though that is of interlocked Overhands--which must
be seen as abbreviated Fig.9s--the loopknot would have a full 9 in the main
line, Oh. in the end), and in single strand like the stopper #525.)
The Fig.8 also has another symmetric form from which one can discover
some bolinesque loopknots, but they're not so easily tied; a couple of these
can be tied w/o the ends pretty neatly, but using the end--as one must,
to tie in--is more fiddly. --beautiful knots, though!
*knudeNoggin*
