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 twisted together. It is laid 'with the sun'—that is, the strands are twisted together from right to left, the sun's apparent course to one facing north. A hawser-laid rope should be coiled from right to left, with the sun; for if coiled in the reverse direction it will kink, and cannot be made to form a neat and snug coil.

A rope is made of three hawser-laid ropes twisted together from left to right, against the sun, and it must be coiled from left to right.

The eyes of the rigging, the forestay, and other parts of rigging liable to be chafed, should be, , and (see Fig. 10). To worm is to lay spun-yarn in the groove between the strands of a rope, so that a smooth surface is obtained on which the parcelling can be evenly laid. To parcel is to wind narrow strips of well-tarred canvas round the wormed rope, following the lay of the rope, that is, the spiral formed by the strands. Serving a rope consists of winding spun-yarn round the rope, over the parcelling; it is laid against the lay of the rope. While it is being wormed, parcelled, and served, the rope should be stretched out as taut