On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:45:25 -0800 (PST), tim
wrote:

However, is it one of those items like rope, it's rope until it goes
on a boat then it is called line.

Yes. When I was a kid the summer camp had some X-boats. They had
lengths of line sown to the edges of the sails, instead of slides or
whatever. These were called " Boltropes ". There were tunnels for them
in the mast and boom.

Casady