🔍 Key Concepts

• Right-laid line: understand how the strands are twisted when looking along the line • How coiling direction affects kinks and hockles (twists that damage line) • Standard seamanship practice for stowing different lays of rope

💭 Think About

• If you look along a right-laid line, which way do the strands seem to spiral? Match that spiral with how you would naturally coil it to avoid fighting the lay. • What happens to a rope if you coil it against its natural lay: does it lie flat, or does it tend to twist up and kink? • Think about whether seamanship rules usually allow "either way" for basic rope handling, or if they prefer one consistent method to protect the line.

✅ Before You Answer

• Visualize or sketch the spiral direction of a right-laid line before choosing. • Decide which coiling direction would work with the lay of the rope rather than against it. • Eliminate any option that would obviously increase kinking or hockling when paying the line out.