okay, karl, have it your way. don't use a parceled on served with Spectra
safety line rolling hitched to your three-strand shock absorbing line.

however, your statement that fire hose is the "arguably the finest chafe
protection" available is still wrong.

you see, a wormed, parceled and served (with Spectra) three-strand line is
still MUCH more chafe-resistent than line wrapped with firehose and/or t-shirts
**AND** you can still place it in fire house if you feel you need even more
chafe protection.

fire hose works, but "arguably" is it not the finest chafe protection
available. better than a t-shirt for sure, but not hardly the best. Unless,
of course, you feel firehose is tougher than Spectra. (keep in mind, karl,
that in the past firehose was not considered even as good as serving with
regular line, just easier.)

Solve the chafe problem.

Don't create new ones - new places for failures.

First rule of engineering - don't create more points of possible failure
unless you MUST do so.

-- Karl

In article ,
JAXAshby wrote:


"weaker" than a chaffed line?

btw karl-genius, just how much does rolling hitching a secondary line to a
primary reduce the strength of the primary line?

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts (with backup, please) on this
very
issue, for when I researched it I could find not a single instance of
scientific tests anywhere and/or even any wild-ass OPINION on the effect of
a
rolling hitch vis a vis strength of primary line ANYwhere.

Braided line to secure to a dock in a storm is IMHO suicidal.

karl, you missed a small point. braided line is used _only_ for the
safety
line taking all the load running through a chock, said braided line then
rolling hitched on to the three-strand line you are using.

you use braided line only for the parceled and served chafe protection
because
braided line stretches less from bitt to chock and there saws less over
the
chock.

three-stand line is, of course, the line you use to soak up the shock from
boat
to dock in a storm, just as three-strand line is the line you use to soak
up
the shock from from boat to well-set anchor in a storm.

you do set safety lines on your anchor lines when anchoring, right?

No, I didn't miss a small point.

You missed a large point. Tying knots in line makes it weaker.

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