Booby, the breaking strength of a dock line is around 10,000 pounds. There's
no
way a properly setup line should encounter this force in a little blow.


Jeff illustrates perfectly how a good sailor differs from a poor one.
I care little about "claims" about line strength. I buy good quality oversized
dockline, but I NEVER trust the label 100%. Who would? When bad weather is
forecast you double up on the lines. It's easy, low cost and a basic rule. It
doesn't exist because everyone's lines are chafing.
Keep trusting those labels, Jeff! I prefer to practice good seamanship and add
lines. This time it payed off.

RB

Booby, the breaking strength of a dock line is around 10,000 pounds. There's
no
way a properly setup line should encounter this force in a little blow.


Jeff

*******IF******** jeffies had the degree in physics he claims he has you would
know full well that loads that high and higher can be generated in a blow.
jeffies is too stew ped to know what shock loads wind gusts and waves put on a
boat.

jeffies is now going to spend hours on end googling to find some article in
BoatsUS that states the incorrect.

do not try to discuss anything even remotely connected to sailing or science
with jeffies unless his wife is standing behind him as he sits at a keyboard.
he really is too dense for words, and he will spin circles for weeks trying to
"prove" he is not dummer than a rock.

"Bobsprit" wrote


Jeff illustrates perfectly how a good sailor differs from a poor
one.

Yup, made you look the fool...........again.

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
Booby, the breaking strength of a dock line is around 10,000 pounds. There's
no
way a properly setup line should encounter this force in a little blow.


Jeff illustrates perfectly how a good sailor differs from a poor one.

Yet my lines don't break, and yours do. Who's the good dailor here?

I care little about "claims" about line strength.

That's obvious. You're buying garbage line.

I buy good quality oversized
dockline, but I NEVER trust the label 100%. Who would? When bad weather is
forecast you double up on the lines. It's easy, low cost and a basic rule. It
doesn't exist because everyone's lines are chafing.
Keep trusting those labels, Jeff! I prefer to practice good seamanship and add
lines. This time it payed off.

There's nothing wrong with adding lines, although I usually leave my boat with
enough lines to sustain a major blow. Gusts to 35 should be expected.

But the reason for double lines is to handle the case of unexpected chafe, which
might happen if another boat get loose and rubs on you lines, or if severe
rocking dislodges chafe guards, etc.

Booby, lines rated at 10,000 pounds do not fail for no reason.

Due to the fact that I'm 2 hours away from my boat, I always have
double lines.

Scotty


"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...
"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
Booby, the breaking strength of a dock line is around 10,000
pounds. There's
no
way a properly setup line should encounter this force in a little
blow.


Jeff illustrates perfectly how a good sailor differs from a poor
one.

Yet my lines don't break, and yours do. Who's the good dailor here?

I care little about "claims" about line strength.

That's obvious. You're buying garbage line.

I buy good quality oversized
dockline, but I NEVER trust the label 100%. Who would? When bad
weather is
forecast you double up on the lines. It's easy, low cost and a
basic rule. It
doesn't exist because everyone's lines are chafing.
Keep trusting those labels, Jeff! I prefer to practice good
seamanship and add
lines. This time it payed off.

There's nothing wrong with adding lines, although I usually leave my
boat with
enough lines to sustain a major blow. Gusts to 35 should be
expected.

But the reason for double lines is to handle the case of unexpected
chafe, which
might happen if another boat get loose and rubs on you lines, or if
severe
rocking dislodges chafe guards, etc.

Booby, lines rated at 10,000 pounds do not fail for no reason.

Booby, lines rated at 10,000 pounds do not fail for no reason.


bob, don't try to discuss anything at with jeffies. unless his wife is
standing behind him while he is at the keyboard, he spends hours trying to put
together complete sentences for the express purpose of showing that if he isn't
exactly the brightest light under the bushel he really can show those girls at
in high school who laughed at his utterly silly responses in class that he can
find something somewhere he can use to "prove" someone is dummer in some
respect.

jeffies is a sophist, way too stupid to even begin to know what the word means.
he is an intellectual creep whose entire (fictionalized) sailing experience is
in training wheels and/or an old man's boat sold to those who are afraid of the
water.

ask the intellectual creep about his degree in physics, or was that his
electrical engineering degree in physics?

I guess it really hurts bad when you get trounced, eh jaxie?

If it make you feels this small, why do you keep making an ass of yourself?





"JAXAshby" wrote in message ...
Booby, lines rated at 10,000 pounds do not fail for no reason.


bob, don't try to discuss anything at with jeffies. unless his wife is
standing behind him while he is at the keyboard, he spends hours trying to put
together complete sentences for the express purpose of showing that if he isn't
exactly the brightest light under the bushel he really can show those girls at
in high school who laughed at his utterly silly responses in class that he can
find something somewhere he can use to "prove" someone is dummer in some
respect.

jeffies is a sophist, way too stupid to even begin to know what the word means.
he is an intellectual creep whose entire (fictionalized) sailing experience is
in training wheels and/or an old man's boat sold to those who are afraid of the
water.

ask the intellectual creep about his degree in physics, or was that his
electrical engineering degree in physics?