What is considered the most efficient way of managing the rope from a hanging belay when block leading??
A bit of background, we are talking about bolted multi-pitch routes with normally double bolts at the belay station. I am creating a master point with a sling which has bowline on a bight to create a loop. The sling is then clove hitched to the second bolt as backup. I am tying into the master point using a sling (which is also used for abseiling), so not part of the rope system.
Belaying the second with a reverso, and at the moment coiling the rope across my feet until my partner arrives, and then flaking the rope back over my partners feet before setting off on the next pitch as if it were a normal standing belay.
However, this is not the most comfortable and is a bit of a pain in the arse/time consuming in flaking the rope back to my partner.
I have tried coiling the rope over my sling, which is fine, and I can take my time to make it neat as I'm using a reverso to belay with, but it obviously coils from belay loop progressively towards the master point. When my partner was arrived and is ready to belay, I can flip the rope over from my sling to hers, but then as she is belaying, the rope is being fed out from the point closest her belay loop which does not seem very smooth, and has the potential for tangles. It would be much better is the rope was being fed off the front of the sling, but that would require flaking the rope from one sling to the other.
Hope the above makes sense.
Is there a better way of managing this???