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just got a christmas present----120 fathom coil of 12mm polyprop rope from coastal nets----long time since i have had a new coil of rope---would you advise stretching it to get rid of the memory----don t want to end up with a bunch of (insert your own swear word)---the first time i put it on the boat-----------------------thanks and happy new year
 
It depends on the quality, but mostly I unwind it with a turntable, or else pull it from the middle 'against the sun' and see, you might get away with just twirling the every end. Don't know if it's what gets caught in your props, what colour would that be?
 
thanks fisherman ---the rope is white with a yellow fleck-- fairly hard lay---eurosteel----don t understand these new polysteel/eurosteel ropes---probably put it on the back of the car and give it a tug with a large swivel attached-----------pvb--don t worry this will be my anchor rope mainly for using the whole 120 fathoms for a running mooring off the shore----i want floaty rope to stop it getting tangled on the bottom
 
When approaching harbour in Stavros we used to make sure the heaving lines weren't twisted by trailing them over the stern and then carefully re-coiling. The water supported the line and any twist could fall out of the end. Admittedly, 200m of 12mm seems a lot to tow from a small boat, but I don't see why it shouldn't work.

Pete
 
In the olden days they would pull it out against the sun over a bar, coiling it down again, three or four times, but a tug with the car is easy, except hauling it back to coil it up. I think you'll find it fairly dead except for the extreme inside end.
 
in the days of sisal (belfast rope company--impregnated with green cuprinol) before polyprop i used to take the new coils to a wood drape them between the trees and let them sag and stretch for 2 or 3 weeks---carried on doing it when polyprop came in---but this new coil i have got seems a lot harder and stiffer than the first polyprop ropes i used --putting a running mooring down for a night or 2 is a bit of a fiddle---last thing you want is kink in the rope
 
Yes it would have been sisal. Not to suggest ways for your maternal grandparent to extract the embryo juice of birds by suction, but for the running mooring don't use a swivel block! In fact I always use two blocks on two weights or on either end of a spreader bar, to stop it winding up.
 
i use a fishermans anchor---5 fathoms of very heavy chain terminating with a large round ring which i run the rope through---worked well in the past with my soft polyprop but i needed a longer length and didn t want to short splice in case it caught up
 
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I think I know what you mean by against the Sun (against the lay?) but could you elucidate please? I'm always a bit vague about which way against the lay is when uncoiling a new rope.
 
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