How To Correctly Coil Rope
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2016
- West Advisor Mark Chandler shows us how to correctly coil our most important ropes.
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Had no idea how to keep it from twisting or what caused it! You Sir have answered and explained the reasons! THANK YOU KINDLY 👍
Absolutely! We're glad we could help!
This is the best way. I learned this method a long time ago. Thank you for doing it right!
Thanks for a very clear easy to follow instuction vid... we'll be changing how we coil!
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback!
Real nice. Having been on boats for the most part of my 80 years, I LEARNED something from this video. T H A N K Y O U West Marine.
Capnchip, thank you so much for the feedback! We appreciate it!
Nice tips. Thx.
Very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome, Mike!
Great stuff!
Thanks
Great name for a Chandler
Some people are born into it.
Family business since a long time maybe
I like it. I never really thought much about why my braided rope had those weird curly-qs. Now I know. I was actually looking for a video that would show a good way to tie up (in order to shorten the length) the remainder of a rope where one end is fixed and cannot be accessed. I'll give this figure-8 thing a try & see what happens, but if life goes the way it's been going I'll probably have to invent some rope-related technique for this.
We're glad the video was able to help you! Hopefully the figure-8 rope technique will work for you!
Awesome..
Thanks!!!
I learned this as a teenager working a crab boat. The last thing you want is a tangled up float line crashing around your feet as it whips over the side. You could end up 30+ feet under in a couple seconds.
Like number 1K... congratulations MY FRIEND
Years of doing it wrong, thanks for showing the right way
Of course - we're here to help!
A real-life chandler!
Yes!
This year really takes me to youtube places I thought I'd never go to...
Great video
Thank you!
Thank you sir.
You are welcome!
Interesting. However, I have for decades used what I think might be called a mountaineer's coil, which is the same way that commercial divers handle their hoses and is used for electrical wires. I won't try to describe it here. But it works well, especially if you need to toss a line, such as a rappel line when climbing. Also, flacking the rope back and forth in your hand works well and doesn't have the possibility of creating knots when the coil of the rope snags the bight of another coil.
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I was taught flaking to avoid the same problem...
nice advice about coiling ropes . the securing of the coil too fast to follow though, sorry.
Thank you for the feedback!
You can adjust the youtube playback speed: super handy for times like this, but once you understand just how simple it is to do you will realize how fast it naturally is to do it yourself. I can attest that when you are used to doing it it's hard to slow the motion down for demonstration.
The only thing I disagree with is intentionally adding ANY twist. It does look prettier that way, and though you will probably get away with it, it's unnecessary. Just grab it and place it the same orientation in your other hand and let it fall naturally: stiff line will flake all by itself, softer line will fall into a coil with the bottom ~90° off plane from the top (it will fall into a figure 8 coil rather than a figure 8 flake as soon as gravity is removed from the equation, like when it's dropped on the deck), but I don't know of any reason that's not ok.
Thank you for your feedback!
Sailors have lines, cowboys have ropes.
Mistake! Don't twist the double braided rope while you coil it. Just push the rope, it will follow his natural texture and form a eight automatically.
Thanks for the feedback!
Just eat the worms.
This is the way I already do it..... not a useful video, on to the next that can show me something everyone doesn't already know.
Thanks for sharing, I hop homestead! We hope you can find a different video of ours that is useful to you.
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Your hope will be unrealized, I'm afraid. ihophomestead has already stated that they already know all that is worth knowing.