Excellent! Especially for the new sailor. Your explanation is simple to follow and execute. Thank you.

Wow. Just tried your tieoff on half inch anchor line. Marvellous. Thanks again.

Very good presentation. I liked how you repeated your original tie after doing the gasket tie. Excellent.

Benefit of gasket coil hitch is that it tends to stay locked up for longer. Your preferred method will come undone more easily when the coil is being passed (thrown!) around the boat. Agreed it hangs straight and looks neater for mainsheets hung on the end of the boom. You could also add a half twist to the bight as you pass it through the coil and then hang the coil on that bight. This is good for hanging halyards off a cleat on the mast.

I'm happy the internet didn't exist when this man was a young man o'wise the whole YT would be spam.

Thank you, just what I needed to see!!!

if you coil from the free end and finish with the spliced end, you can hang the coil from the prepare splice on a hook or peg etc.

If you hang the different coils in order (in the direction from your elbow to your hand) it won't foul even if you don't manually uncoil it before using it, which is a mess if the rope is really long. If the rope is too long you can pass the first coils on to your arm before continuing.

I like the gaskey coil hitch because you don't need any free end to tidy the line.

an english seaman showed me one where you make an x to sinch a loop for hanging when i was a teen but i lost how to do it but your way is fine and easier to remember; thanks

well described. My vote is for the gasket coil

Thank you for that ,I own lots of rope, now all i need is the boat :o)

if it's longer and especially if it's braided not twisted, you really should figure 8 not round coils. You are adding twist with each round coil. when you understand wrap a longer line (i.e. a spare sheet or halyard) it will kink and foul.

The way to release a Gasket Coil hitch is just pull the bight back over the top of the coil, you don't snake the free end back out.

The gasket coil hitch is better because it locks the coil. Also, you should leave more on the end so that you can clove hitch it to a rail below and the rope hangs and dries. They should all be hung up, not thrown into lockers. Good to see clockwise coiling.

very good normally most people ignore all this things in life , and will have to face trouble at crucial occasions .

Very helpful

That's an eye in the end of the rope, not a bight. A bight is an open loop.

Nicely Done

thx. for the video, I have seen people coiling it using figure 8 method. They say it prevents twisting of long ropes. What are your thoughts on this?

Each time the rope goes over your hand to form a coil it should pass back in a different direction, little finger to thumb, thumb to little finger. That way its not being twisted as you have just done....

good one!!!!

Not for a braided line! Excellent for the three-strand shown.

One large improvement to your method. That pre-spliced eye on your beginning end?? When you first lay it to begin the coil,,, make it longer than the coil is going to be. Allow it to hang a substantial,, for that size and weight rope,, 10 or 12 inches lower than the bottom of the loops. Because,,,, when the starting loop is shorter, if often drops through the coil, or can be pulled through the coil when you go to use it. That will cause a knot and a delay. If the starting loop is longer, it resists dropping through the coils and usually,,, not always, stays to the correct side so when you drop the coil for use,, it runs true. You need not do a pre- uncoil. Just take the daisy-chain off the top and throw it. It will run smooth nearly every time.

Great! I took a two day beginners sailing course and the instructor was not best pleased at my attempt at knots!

Comme ça!

Thanks...very good....JM

APSLDT.com shows how to coil without introducing twist. Maybe because it is a short length....Clean and pretty but will it feed smartly through a block? But I mostly surf and the only line I use is the leash.

*Great*

I'm also left handed

Oh what a shame you don't prefer the much superior gasket coil. Your preferred method will come undone all too readily. The gasket coil is so named because it has been used to coil the gaskets on square riggers for centuries, they hang neatly on the forward side of sails through all weathers, the last thing you want is a gasket coming loose in a gale and jambing the gear when clewing up...... It's sad to see bad practice being taught to new sailors. But that's 'yotties' for you.

There is a fair amount of misinformation in this short video. As you eventually acknowledge, the coiling method will impart a full twist for each coil. Not good. Either reversing every other coil, or simply laying it back and foth in your hand rather than coiling would avoid this problem. Also, Duncan, the idea that three strand rope should be coiled in one direction because of the twist of the strands ignores the fact that "right hand" is "left hand" if you turn the coil around. You can coil three strand in either direction, really. Uh, and then you demonstrate how to do it so you don't have enough length left to hang it up as you say is the point of the coiling system? Maybe you should have tried this before you turned on the camera to get the length right. So, I will make you a deal. You drop by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, in Long Beach, California, and we'll have a few beers and really get to the bottom of this whole rope coiling thing. Russ Sailing Vessel "Coyote" ABYC

Forget the wraps

"Rope" comes on a spool.... "line" is the proper word....

I would call the bite “ spliced” rather than pre spliced. No need for the “ pre” in most cases....I worked as a carpenter for yrs. Was told many times to “ pre- drill” something. I would take a sip from my coffee, then “ drill the hole. Not pre drill the hole.

Could you be any more British. Very good sir. Thank you

Wrong way to cool a rope This.ends with a twist in the rope. The better way to cool a rope is to start the same way but to pass the rope over not wrapping around the wrist like shown. This way you end up with no twist in the rope

Wrong.

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