+1 on the figure eight.  My oday 22 did not have a traveler for the main and 
the main sheet was very long.  I started out cooling and it always git all 
jammed up untiltel I readabout and started using the figure eight.  Never 
twisted up again


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-------- Original message --------
From: "Dennis C. via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 
Date: 05/26/2014  1:51 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: CnClist <CnC-List@cnc-list.com> 
Subject: Stus-List Hockles in lines - figure eight vs coiling 
 
Couple mentions lately about problems with hockles in lines.  Here's a tip.

When you coil a line, you put twists in it.  Yeah, it looks great but will it 
run free?  

By coiling, I mean rolling in that half twist so the line coils.

Instead, try this.  Hold the line in the palm of your left hand with your thumb 
facing the working end, i.e. end towards mast or furler.  Hold the standing end 
in the palm of your right hand with your thumb facing the standing end.  Now, 
without rolling the line, bring your palms together.  The line will form a 
figure eight.  Repeat until the line is done.

A line figure-eighted will run free.  A coiled line may jamb up in a block or 
mast exit.

Here's a similar method:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa06oPNJBys

BTW, against my own advice I coil my furling line but when I go to unfurl the 
genoa, I throw the line down into the cabin so the twists come out well before 
the line gets to the first block.  I have one halyard at the mast.  It gets the 
figure eight treatment.

Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
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