Flemish Flake Rope Coil
by Marty Saccone
Title
Flemish Flake Rope Coil
Artist
Marty Saccone
Medium
Photograph - Fine Photography
Description
Flaking
Flaking a rope is to arrange it on the deck ready for easy use or made up as a decorative finish for the rope while in harbor etc.
The Flemish Flake (or Flemish Coil) provides an attractive, neat way of temporarily stowing the end of a rope. A Flemish flake/coil, also called a cheesed coil, is a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. Flemish coils were, and still are, used by the Navy and by yachties when they want everything to look especially neat and tidy.
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July 24th, 2013
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