{"id":1407,"date":"2016-05-13T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2016-05-13T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:02:47","slug":"how-to-coil-a-rope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/how-to-coil-a-rope\/","title":{"rendered":"How to coil a mooring line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"619\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/knots-and-ropes\/10-how-to-coil-line\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?fit=523%2C2500\" data-orig-size=\"523,2500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10-how-to-coil-line\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?fit=63%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?fit=214%2C1024\" class=\"hairline wp-image-619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?resize=75%2C359\" alt=\"10-how-to-coil-line\" width=\"75\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?resize=214%2C1024 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?resize=301%2C1440 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10-how-to-coil-line.png?w=523 523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/knots-and-ropes\/6\/\">The hardest chapter to write in <\/a><em>Narrowboating for Beginners<\/em> was the <a href=\"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/knots-and-ropes\/\">\u201cKnots and Ropes\u201d chapter<\/a>, because I know\u00a0from experience that learning\u00a0to tie a knot by reading about it, or even seeing illustrations of it, never works. You end up realizing you need three hands or extra dimensions to accomplish the task.<\/p>\n<p>Of course even harder is\u00a0the task of creating the illustrations. The original version of this had ten steps, finally boiled down to the five you see here (I cheated by separating out securing the line to a railing).<\/p>\n<p>Even still, it can be difficult to follow this illustration, so I direct you to the\u00a0video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_20889\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D2eXSEfia7M?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course the prettiest way to coil a rope is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animatedknots.com\/flemish\/#ScrollPoint\">Flemish flake<\/a>, but seriously, who has time for that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest chapter to write in Narrowboating for Beginners was the \u201cKnots and Ropes\u201d chapter, because I know\u00a0from experience that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to coil a mooring line from Narrowboating for Beginners #narrowboat http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/knots-and-ropes\/6\/","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/left-side-book-cover.jpg?fit=1600%2C2133","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74kO9-mH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}