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Default A great idea

On Oct 25, 10:10*am, Secular Humouresque wrote:
On 10/25/10 11:02 AM, Frogwatch wrote:

I spent a huge amount of time trying to come up with some way to keep
a boat *centered between two pilings as the tide went up or down even
for storm surges. *Thought about all kinds of mechanisms that kept
constant tension on the lines while allowing it to lengthen and then
shorten. *THEN, somebody else thought of something really simple, an
idea I admire. *It is simply balls with holes thru them threaded onto
the line that goes around your pilings. *They roll up and down the
piling as the water rises and falls. *I cannot remember the product
name, does anybody know it? *Has anybody used it?


http://www.tideminders.com/

(For those who need a lot of balls)


Weird! As I read the propaganda, I caught myself breathing in sync
with the rise and fall of the rollers on the post!

LOL!
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