Talk:Cowboy bowline

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12 times longer? On a round loop that's a foot across, that would be something like 40 feet of loose rope! ("Good thing you followed that rule of thumb, sailor! The first 35 feet slipped through the knot, but there were still those magical five feet of rope left.") —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xkcd (talk • contribs) 00:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

They don't say circumference of what. Maybe they mean 12x the circumference of the rope. For a 10.5mm rope, that's about 3cm circumference, so 40cm of tail, which seems reasonable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.231.59.254 (talk) 20:06, 22 September 2007 (UTC)