We have already seen in a previous article the usual technique for rolling a string without making a lug . In this article, we will see how to roll up long ends. In this example the technique is described for a right-handed person.
Rolling a long mooring line
We borrowed this technique from the mountaineers. Indeed, they use very long ropes to ensure their safety during their ascent. This technique for rolling one end does not support the entire weight of the hawser on one arm. So we're going to roll this long hawser over our shoulders.
1 - The glenoids will have the span of your arms spread out. In your first gesture, leave 1 m of running rope free at one end, which will be used to secure the end once it is coiled. In this example, it is the left hand.
2 - Place the hawser behind your neck, keeping your arms apart. With your right hand, block the rope.
3 - With your left hand, fetch the rope to be rolled up, under your right hand.
4 - Pull the end of the tip by spreading the arms apart so as to form a second glenoid, which you will also come to put behind your neck.
5 - Perform the same operation by picking up the string with your right hand under your left hand in order to make a third glenoid that you will also pass behind your neck.
6 - Repeat these operations alternating left and right hands until you reach the end of your string.
7 - With your right hand holding part of the string, with your thumb in particular, come and hook all the glenoids held in your left hand.
8 - Remove the rope from your head. The length and time to coil the glenoids were halved.
9 - Your mooring is coiled up. Secure your hawser so it doesn't get tangled up.
