Has been some question to parcel or not to parcel. One thought is that parceling will hold in the moisture, cause rot, and thus be not worth the time and energy to clap it on.
I have seen the description of worming and parceling in some salty old books and technical descriptions of rigging from the days of tarry hemp rigs. See: "The Elements and practice of Rigging And Seamanship" Should we parcel just because someone took the time to typeset during the early days of the printing press?
When I first started sailing the Eastindiaman Gothenburg, the rigging was quite new. Some rigging had been paceled, some not. Now as she has been sailing for around a decade, I am able to get a feel for where rigging is showing signs of aging, or where it fails.
Here is a piece of rigging that has been wormed, parceled, served, and tarred between all of those steps.
Hemp stretches slowly over time, and service that is laid on can aquire a small gap inbetween each turn. Here one can see the parceling doing its job. It is holding in the tar, and in the small gaps of the service the tar has built up on top. Under the service the hemp is in very nice condition. The yarns are all clearly visible, have a nice tarry brown color, are free of rot, and unscathed.
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| Bumkin Outhaul / Fockhalsdävert Uthal |
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| Clapping on service / Klädning |
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