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You know, the twisting isn't that big a deal. It's only going to get you into trouble if there is slack in the line, and you don't ever want slack in a line anyway (it doesn't take twists to create knots and messes).
I hadn't thought about it, but James is, as usual, right; I DO use the double-ender when I'm in drygloves, because handling line in dry gloves is tricky (you can't feel it very well). But with bare hands, I just wind with my fingers.
If doing something in the theoretically perfect way is going to make it difficult to keep a schedule or keep a team together, I'll go for suboptimal and fixable any day. But in reality, despite not being particularly religious about rewinding spools, I have yet to have a single even minor problem related to the way I spool up, except that the spools don't look pretty.
I too am diving cold water, and so I'm rarely in anything but 5mm neoprene gloves. Gloves do make everything harder.
With gloves, double-handed rotating of the spool is slow and clumsy, but I've only done it a couple of times. Just now, practicing it in my living room without gloves (or water! ) went much smoother, but still awkward. Probably something I should practice more.
I'm going to practice using the double-ender as well: I'll make sure I run the line out and back in using the spool only (or a drill) when I'm done to make sure it's untwisted.
How long does it take you to reel in a spool underwater? In my living room, I was able to do 75' in a little over five minutes, or about 15' per *minute*. I can see doing *half* that underwater and with gloves. Is that really how long it should take? Or do I need to keep practicing?
Using the double-ender *does* make reeling it up a lot faster than trying to rotate the spool. In my living room I can easily do the whole 75' spool in under two minutes.
Thank you all very much for your help! I will keep practicing, but this has helped immensely.
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) went much smoother, but still awkward. Probably something I should practice more.
Originally Posted by fdog
