Belaying pin coils

[Short John Bronze]

It seems to be a common and practical practice to form hanks/coils of rope on the bench to hang on belaying pins rather than trying to coil excess running rope in situ.
As an extension of this process I have experimented with tying pre-formed hanks to a belaying pin on the bench. A running line could then be threaded through a hole in the pin rack, tensioned and then secured by plugging in the complete pin and hank assembly. Whether this is any advantage I have yet to discover. Perhaps it will be useful in some locations.
Basically I am bored waiting for PSM to deliver my next kit so I am using ship build hours to faff about with left-over fittings.

 

[Y.T.]

Whether this is any advantage I have yet to discover. Perhaps it will be useful in some locations.

It certainly will. It will save time and frustration. But not in my case where I already glued all pins on.

 

[Bob Cleek]

by making up the coils on the bench with a "tail" on them, they can handily be belayed to a pin with a half hitch. I use an application of clear shellac which gradually stiffens as the alcohol evaporates from it to form the shapes required to fix the coils into a shape which appears realistic.

 

[KAYA61]

I suggest you take a look at this topic.

Proper way to make rope hanks

I'm going to start my first complicated rigging job soon. Does anyone have an illustration of the proper way to make rope hanks? I've seen a lot of figure eights wrapped a few times in the middle, but I think there's another step that makes them much more realistic. I remember seeing a set of...

shipsofscale.com

 

[paul ron]

im sure there are a 100 was to do this and here is a video of the 101st way....

 

[KAYA61]

@paul ron thank you very much, I am learning a new things.