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16 GETTING STARTED
Storing Rope
When you are not working with your rope, coil it up neatly to
prevent it from becoming tangled and then hang it in a dry
place. Make sure natural-fiber rope is completely dry before
you store it away.
Coiling rope
Coil rope carefully into loops with even turns that follow the
twists of the rope’s construction. Use some thin line to hold
the loops together so the coiling cannot be disturbed.
Braided rope Three-strand rope
Coil braided rope into Coil three-strand rope
figure-eight loops to balance into loops in a clockwise
the left- and right-hand direction.
twists of its strands.
Clockwise loops
Figure-eight loops
