Bowline variations

I read in a knot book, there are over 40 variations of the bowline. This includes the 'right handed and left handed' bowlines and their variations. i.e., right handed inside and outside bowline; left handed inside and outside bowline.
 
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I still like one taught by Norm, called the circus bowline.

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Pictures please and a description. I have heard only good things about this knot.

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The guy that taught me called it a "3 loop" bowline. Then I saw it in a knot book as the "circus". I have heard all others refer to it as circus.

Maybe someone can post an illustration. If not, I'll shoot a sequence of stills. It's kinda hard to explain without pics. It's a midline knot that doesn't cinch as much as the alpine butterfly (much easier to untie after loading).
 
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I read in a knot book, there are over 40 variations of the bowline. This includes the 'right handed and left handed' bowlines and their variations. i.e., right handed inside and outside bowline; left handed inside and outside bowline.

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I don't understand the distinction between "right-/left-handed"
if not meaning "inside/outside" (re end)--sounds like one is
counting mirror images, which doesn't make sense to me (it has
the fun aspect of being denied for a Fig.8, though :o). I'll bet
the book however didn't include these: http://i3.tinypic.com/wjwh1t.jpg.

The IGKT had someone claim a count of some 80 "bowlines", by which
I think he counted knots bearing the name--a rather cheap way
to hoped-for knot fame. It raises the question What is the
essence, the defining character, of a bowline?. (To which
I answer: the mainline's central, nipping loop.)

*kN*
 
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called the circus bowline.

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The guy that taught me called it a "3 loop" bowline. Then I saw it in a knot book as the "circus". I have heard all others refer to it as circus.

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Presumably because 3-loop bowline = 3-ring circus.
 
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sounds like all you have to do is take a bight midline and tie a bowline...maybe?

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Yes. When formed, there are three loops, or rings, thus circus bowline. As Jman said, also called double bowline, or (better) doubled bowline. If used as a midline knot in a 3:1 MA system it can be tied as a doubled running bowline so the entire length of line doesn't have to be run through the loops.



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That would be a bowline on a bight, not a circus bowline.

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Bowline on a bight is a different knot:

http://www.ropeworks.biz/archive/Abowbit.html

and

http://www.animatedknots.com/bowlinebight/index.php
 
Still not clear on how to tie this Circus bowline........this is turning into a circus. I usually tie a Double bowline, I *think* now that all these variants are in the light with all different names I am unsure. I wonder if I am even tieing a bowline, or if it is a left hand upside down inside out bowline?
 
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