"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"M. Baker" wrote in message
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Believe me - I've already thought of the drain plug.
We got to the cottage so late that we decided to wait until the next
day to launch it. It rained pretty hard that night. The next morning
hubby pulled the drain plug to let the water drain out. I made sure to
remind him to put that plug back in before we launched it!
I've just subscribed to Trailering Boats and Bass & Walleye Boats
magazines, and printed a bunch of stuff off from one of their websites
on towing, for future reference.

I think we have both the colored plastic/nylon ropes that came with
the boat from the guy we bought it from, plus I bought another regular
thicker rope. Why?


Plastic: If it's the scratchy kind, it's made for towing skiers or
something. It's stiff and will sometimes untie its own knots. That's not
good.

As to my more general question, try this in your yard on a very windy day.
Measure a distance of 25 feet. Try to throw a bundle of your boat rope
into the wind, to a person standing 25 feet away. If you can't do it in
one throw, your rope is too short and probably too light (skinny). One
day, you'll be trying to dock the boat when some sort of bizarre wind has
kicked up, and someone one the dock may offer to catch a line for you. You
can figure out the rest. Don't be one of those fools who's got shoelaces
for boat rope.

This may not apply so much in your case..but the bow & aft lines should
normally be nylon.
If's better to have a little streatch and springness to allow for the ebb &
flow at a dock.
That polyproplene stuff may float but doesn't streatch.... so it might be
good if you were using it as a 'painter' on a dinghy.