"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Rope. In all of his millennia handling boats, he uses rope.

that is the term used by boaters in the context of the Sea-Ray owner's
question.

"line" is fishing line, "rope" is anchor rope.

Try anchor rode.

Eisboch


Acch!

You're all right, sort of.

"Rope" is a proper term for certain types of cordage aboard a boat.
Technically, it is supposed to apply to cordage that is 1" or more in diameter,
with lesser sizes considered "small stuff", or "twine". Nobody in 2004 uses the
term "small stuff" on a pleasure boat, and we all think of "twine" as something
you use to wrap a parcel or lash a Christmas tree to the roof of the family
station wagon. Rope works.
The guy who refers to unemployed cordage
as "rope" isn't lubberly- it's the white slacks, blue blazer, yacht clubber
gripping the champagne flute with an extended pinky finger and feigning disgust
whenever anybody uses the term "rope" that
displays ignorance on the topic.

When rope is put to work, it can become a "line." It can be a bow line, a stern
line, a spring line, a breast line, etc.
But rope can work without being a line of any type. It can be a halyard, a
lashing, a bell rope, or any number of things not properly considered a "line."

An achor rode is the rope, chain, cable, or combination thereof that connects
vessel to anchor.