I really like the way you finished the coils. It allows you to hang it on a hook without any extra straps or bands. I wish you hadn't put the twists in the line, though. Those twists have to come out before you run the line through any kind of blocking. Let the line "figure 8", it'll be much more usable when you need it.
@@RiggingDoctor Sorry Herbie, this is wrong for single (sheaved) and braided line. My first sailing lesson is tomorrow and I've just learned that all those beautifully coiled cords and ropes are only right for three strand twist. The test is to drop the coil on the deck (floor) and then pull the bitter end through a block. If little loops come up the rope - you've done it wrong - those will jam. At home I'm using my left hand to form a loop (OK) and pulling my line through it to check my coiling. btw I've watched about 8 videos so far and they're all terrible.(RUclips/Google seems to rank bad videos very high.) Either they show the wrong way for braided line.... or they spend most of their time carefully showing the wrong way as wrong.... (yikes!) and then rush through the correct way. I'm getting some good figure 8 coiling and some not good. A single good video that carefully shows hand position while doing it right is all that's needed! This shouldn't be that hard. Something else I find interesting. As bad as RUclips can be sometimes, it's not nearly as inept as old broadcast TV. The old method was to just quickly show the good end results with no effective how to.
Twisting the rope to make loop coils leads to hockles; which is bad for any line which runs thru blocks. Figure eights do not introduce the twist and uncoil and run thru blocks without hockling.
This is true, but figure 8 loops get tangled up and don’t run out freely when you need to deploy it. The hockles are easy to free as they only require a slight twist when they occur, in the mean time you have a rope that is easy to deploy without concern of tangles.
I really like the way you finished the coils. It allows you to hang it on a hook without any extra straps or bands. I wish you hadn't put the twists in the line, though. Those twists have to come out before you run the line through any kind of blocking. Let the line "figure 8", it'll be much more usable when you need it.
also, the 8's are faster, & don't tangle as easily as the 0's.
I believe this method is best with three strand rope?
It’s great for three strand but we also use it for all our double braid and single braid lines as well.
@@RiggingDoctor Sorry Herbie, this is wrong for single (sheaved) and braided line. My first sailing lesson is tomorrow and I've just learned that all those beautifully coiled cords and ropes are only right for three strand twist.
The test is to drop the coil on the deck (floor) and then pull the bitter end through a block. If little loops come up the rope - you've done it wrong - those will jam.
At home I'm using my left hand to form a loop (OK) and pulling my line through it to check my coiling.
btw I've watched about 8 videos so far and they're all terrible.(RUclips/Google seems to rank bad videos very high.) Either they show the wrong way for braided line.... or they spend most of their time carefully showing the wrong way as wrong.... (yikes!) and then rush through the correct way.
I'm getting some good figure 8 coiling and some not good. A single good video that carefully shows hand position while doing it right is all that's needed! This shouldn't be that hard.
Something else I find interesting. As bad as RUclips can be sometimes, it's not nearly as inept as old broadcast TV. The old method was to just quickly show the good end results with no effective how to.
You shouldn’t roll the rope when you coil if you need it to cleanly run through a block, let it figure 8.
It must be a difference in our hands. When I do the figure 8, it always jams and knots when I release it. This method always pulls free for me 😎
@@RiggingDoctor This guy demonstrates issues well ruclips.net/video/pF3jyUx6JyM/видео.html
This method should never be used with braided line. Three-strand will work with this method.
It’s actually how I coil all my lines: single braid, double braid, and three strand.
Twisting the rope to make loop coils leads to hockles; which is bad for any line which runs thru blocks. Figure eights do not introduce the twist and uncoil and run thru blocks without hockling.
This is true, but figure 8 loops get tangled up and don’t run out freely when you need to deploy it. The hockles are easy to free as they only require a slight twist when they occur, in the mean time you have a rope that is easy to deploy without concern of tangles.