pobject width="494" height="413"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Laq3AFmoUwhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Laq3AFmoUwhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="413"/embed/objectbr / The one DIY skill most of you don't have (according to a href="http://lifehacker.com/5058914/one-hundred-diy-skills-everyone-should-have"last Saturday's poll/a) is tie a bowline (knot, that is). Unless you're a sailor or a Girl or Boy Scout, you've probably never heard of a bowline. But this super-useful knot creates a loop that's strong enough to put around someone's waist and pull them out of the water, or hold down heavy objects, and it's very easily undone. Hit the play button above to learn how to tie a bowline using an easy-to-remember bunny metaphor. Any knot nerds out there put the bowline to good use in regular everyday life? Any other knots you know and love? 'Fess up in the comments. div class="related"a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Laq3AFmoUw"How to tie a bowline knot/a [YouTube]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=8105cfa4f82a9299233e1461d3398cc8" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8105cfa4f82a9299233e1461d3398cc8" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=VvQ52s"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=VvQ52s" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=TPKXM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=TPKXM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Bc6sM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Bc6sM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Qt8Hm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Qt8Hm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=cmk9m"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=cmk9m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/417822280" height="1" width="1"/

The one DIY skill most of you don't have (according to last weekend's poll) is the ability to tie a bowline (knot, that is). Unless you're a sailor or a Girl or Boy Scout, you've probably never heard...