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On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:53:20 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:12:55 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:08:33 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:54:54 UTC-3, Tim wrote:
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When you tie it to an anchor it is a rode and if it is tied to a sail
it is a sheet. Back in the sailing ship days, when most of these terms
were coined, they had ropes going everywhere so they wanted to more
closely define each use one may have.

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Thatâ€™s what I always thought. If it was â€œtowableâ€ or â€œtossableâ€ itâ€™s usually a â€œlineâ€. If itâ€™s to be more of a solid fixture like for masts and sails then itâ€™s a â€œropeâ€ not necessarily a â€œlineâ€ and on an anchor itâ€™s a â€œrodeâ€

Interesting...

If it's to raise a sail, it's a halyard...to control a sail, a sheet. If used to tie up small dinghies, a painter. To tie up a larger vessel, a line (that is bow line, stern line, spring lines etc)

Like I said, on an old sailing vessel with rope going everywhere they
had to give them distinctive names to know what the hell they were
talking about.

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Line is rope with a purpose.

Rope is a raw material waiting to be made into something useful, like
a sheet, halyard, anchor rode, dock line, dinghy painter, etc.

There you go. Great way to explain it. ;-)

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