Ropes and Knots

http://youtu.be/VI5p7xdWnHE

The sea gasket coil is useful for coiling up large amounts of rope and tying them into small easy to use bundles. This will take a bit of practice. Infact, this video took a few takes to get it right!

Begin with your line ,let six to eight inches of it hang below your left hand if you are a righty. Using your right hand pinch the line and twist one quarter turn. You want to keep all of your loops roughly the same size. Given a quarter twist every time. The twist will help keep the rope laying flat. Once you have a tail twice the length of your gasket coil wrap around behind your coil. Once

you have a tail about the length of your gasket, push the end to the tail careful not to pull the end of the tail all the way through.

Just make a bight or loop and then fold it over the top of your coil. Now pull your tail and you have a nice tight coil.

Watch the link to my video here-

The Sea Gasket Coil

								
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2. Now - imagine the loop is a rabbit hole and the tip is the rabbiit.

The other end of the rope is the tree. Feed the tip up through the hole

( the rabbit coming up).

3. Pass the rabbit round the back of the tree

4. Pass the rabbit back down the hole- back into the original loop.

5. Pull tight carefully

1. Make a loop toward yourself, leaving enough

free at the end to go around your post, tree,

or similar object.


The Bowline pronounced bow-lin


								
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Figure It Eight

								
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