Ropes

[tim griffin]

What are your ropes/warps made of Eg Nylon . Polyprop .
and how long is your bow/stern line.

[Pete7]

Nylon, two 3m ropes for pontoon mooring on deck. 2 x 30m anchor ropes and a 3rd 40m shot line carried below deck in the rope store for diving. When not anchoring the long ropes are used for challenging mooring situations like deep french canals.

Pete

[Dirk Diggler]

Hey Tim, I'm starting to think that you must be a pretty crap instructor, as last few threads you've started just seem to be asking questions to things you ought to know the answers to!

What knots, ropes, clothing, kit etc, if you don't know these simple basics, how'd you become an instructor? Or have you become a post whore?

[Jimbob]

Nylon

bow/stern lines 5 meters

[tim griffin]

Originally Posted by Dirk Diggler

Hey Tim, I'm starting to think that you must be a pretty crap instructor, as last few threads you've started just seem to be asking questions to things you ought to know the answers to!

What knots, ropes, clothing, kit etc, if you don't know these simple basics, how'd you become an instructor? Or have you become a post whore?

AWWW That's not a very nice thing to say is it.

[wavelength]

Or have you become a post whore

[Mark Halliday]

Bow line - 8m x 14mm 3 strand nylon attached to bow ring
Stern line - 6m x 10mm 3 strand nylon
Anchor line - 6m x 1/4" chain + 50m x 10mm 3 strand nylon

Misc string:-
30m x 12mm braided nylon (red) for tying up etc.
30m x 12mm braided nylon (blue) for tying up etc.
25m x 12mm 10 plat floating line (it was cheap!)
2 off 10m x 5mm Dynema each with a carbine hook (recovery line)
bobbin of 3mm Excell, was 20m but getting shorter all the time (Hat and sun glasses attachment for the use of)
One or two short bits of 6mm nylon for lashing down (or lashing up. )

[Simon B]

Nylon 14mm painter with 10mm line spliced halfway along so painter can be pulled in without hanging over bow.

10mm shot lines of various lengths

10mm Old climbing rope used as mooring lines.

[prairie tuber]

Originally Posted by Dirk Diggler

Hey Tim, I'm starting to think that you must be a pretty crap instructor, as last few threads you've started just seem to be asking questions to things you ought to know the answers to!

What knots, ropes, clothing, kit etc, if you don't know these simple basics, how'd you become an instructor? Or have you become a post whore?

Not all of us are endowed with omniscience. People such as myself can benefit greatly by reading about how these basics are done by those with greater (or different) experience(s) than what I have.

Is it not possible that the methods and materials used for doing the basics can change over time?


prairie 'post whore" tuber

[codprawn]

Originally Posted by prairie tuber

Not all of us are endowed with omniscience. People such as myself can benefit greatly by reading about how these basics are done by those with greater (or different) experience(s) than what I have.

Is it not possible that the methods and materials used for doing the basics can change over time?


prairie 'post whore" tuber

I am always learning all the time - try to soak up info like a sponge. As long as there is a LOGICAL explanation for something I will listen to it.

[CJL]

I'm glad to see I am not the only person that uses climbing ropes for mooring! Very stretchy and eases some of the load off my cleats!! Has anybody tried to cut it up themselves?

Chris

[John Kennett]

Originally Posted by CJL

Has anybody tried to cut it up themselves?

No problem. I find that the best way is to wrap it with electrical tape at the point you want to cut, and use a sharp stanley knife. You can then heat seal the ends before taking off what's left of the tape. Neat, and easy.

John

[CJL]

Hmmmmmm,

I'd heard you can't cut climbing rope as it the centre and outer cores do not fuse together and therefore move indenpendently.

Chris

[codprawn]

Originally Posted by CJL

Hmmmmmm,

I'd heard you can't cut climbing rope as it the centre and outer cores do not fuse together and therefore move indenpendently.

Chris

The best way is to pull a bit of excess core further out - say about an inch - then cut it and let it retract - then seal the ends of the sheath to form a sort of cap over it.

When I think of all the old climbing ropes I have chucked in the interests of safety - the only ones I have now are like new - NOT cutting those to make mooring ropes!!!

[Rogue Wave]

Originally Posted by tim griffin

What are your ropes/warps made of Eg Nylon . Polyprop .
and how long is your bow/stern line.

whatever I can pinch off Leviathon

[Rogue Wave]

Originally Posted by Mark Halliday

Bow line - 8m x 14mm 3 strand nylon attached to bow ring
Stern line - 6m x 10mm 3 strand nylon
Anchor line - 6m x 1/4" chain + 50m x 10mm 3 strand nylon

Misc string:-
30m x 12mm braided nylon (red) for tying up etc.
30m x 12mm braided nylon (blue) for tying up etc.
25m x 12mm 10 plat floating line (it was cheap!)
2 off 10m x 5mm Dynema each with a carbine hook (recovery line)
bobbin of 3mm Excell, was 20m but getting shorter all the time (Hat and sun glasses attachment for the use of)
One or two short bits of 6mm nylon for lashing down (or lashing up. )

wow! which ones do you use for flogging the wife

[Mark Halliday]

Originally Posted by Rogue Wave

wow! which ones do you use for flogging the wife

Never tried flogging her...............










................ she aint worth enough now to make it worth while, though she was valued at 2 camels (4 legged) in her youth.

[jyasaki]

I've got a 3/8 x 15 ft or so 3-strand nylon off each corner for docking. Don't normally moor, so no need for a painter. If I do need to moor, I pull one of the dock lines, and use that.

Anchor line is 200' of 7/16 double braid nylon; that will get replaced soon with either 3/8 3-strand (cheaper) or 3/8 double braid (easier on the hands.)

I've also got about 8 or 10 3/16's braided poly (of some sort) with a bolt clip at one end and a gate clip at the other, used for hanging dive gear, cameras, spear guns, etc. off the boat while ingressing/egressing.

Last, about 125 feet of reclaimed yellow 3-strand polypropylene with a fender on the end used as a current line (in case a diver misses the boat and ends up down-current. Easier to pull oneself back hand over hand than swimming against a current.)

One thing I need to do is rig up a tow line; I figure about 50 feet of fairly large polypropylene (or other non-stretch line) with a built-in Y to go to either rear tow eye.

jky

[RIVA]

is all this knowladge for a book

[Milan]

Originally Posted by RIVA

is all this knowladge for a book

http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12176