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Fig. 7. The hitch is now cinched. 



In this case it is necessary that both No. I and No. 2 

 begin and heave at the same time on the first turns 

 and take the slack at the same time. This is be- 

 cause there is no hook nor friction of rope to hold 

 against the cinching process at first. Virtually it 

 is that one packer holds while the other heaves 

 on the first turns. It is practically a simultaneous 

 operation and for simplicity is so given. 

 No. 2 forms a bowline at the end of the lash rope 

 on the off side. 



The position of the lash rope is now as shown in 

 Fig. 7. 



