karl, Spectra comes on spools and is sold in various sizes in fishing tackle
shops.

I wouldn't worry too much about Spectra cutting through a metal chock in even
an extended storm. If *you* are worried about that happening, use braided line
to parcel and serve, because braided line had much less stretch, and you are
using the braided line as a safety line, aren't you?

besides, put the wormed, parceled, served with Spectra line inside the fire
hose you recommend the line first has to "cut through" (your term) the fire
hose ("arguably the finest chafe gear available" according to you) and THEN cut
through the metal chock and THEN through the boat's deck and THEN through the
boats hull to finally make the boat come free.

If all that happens, karl, you just gotta figure when your number is up your
number is up. God is just out to get ya, dood.

I've yet to find a Spectra "tube" - I've seen them made out of

karl, can I ask you a question? do *you* know what worming, parcelling and
serving means? Exactly? It's history goes back a long ways. If you want, I
can explain it to you. just ask.

junnie, I posted this very information in, I believe, my very first post in
this thread.

keep up, Forrest.

Gene Kearns
Date: 10/2/2004 12:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

On 02 Oct 2004 03:36:59 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

I've yet to find a Spectra "tube" - I've seen them made out of

karl, can I ask you a question? do *you* know what worming, parcelling and
serving means? Exactly? It's history goes back a long ways. If you want,
I
can explain it to you. just ask.

Karl, two things occur to me.

1) For the first time, ever, Jax has offered supporting data. Please
encourage this behavior.

2) He's probably old enough to have been there when they actually
defined these terms... he might actually know the correct answer, for
a change!

--



Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Southport, NC.

http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage
http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC
is located.
http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats
at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide

Around 9/30/2004 6:53 AM, Gene Kearns wrote:

On 30 Sep 2004 00:32:38 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:



all-chain rode has been in use just few years...



Oh? Really??

http://home.comcast.net/~galmgren/ot...vid-Sghets.jpg

Picture taken in the mid-1960s. All chain rode, both then and now. Not
uncommon.

Maybe he meant a few [score of] years?

--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

sorry if English is confusing to you guys. the use of the term "in use just a
few just years" in the context in which it was used ***CLEARLY*** indicated "in
------------------ common ------------------ use just few years."

geesh, are you really that dumb or are you just being assholes because you have
nothing to contribute and you like being assholes?

If you really do lack even ordinary intelligence you have no value in this or
any other discussion and should start each post with a disclaimer saying such.
On the other hand you have nothing to contribute and you like being assholes
you also have no value in this or any other discussion and should begin each
post with your name so the ng can ignore your posts immediately.

nos pam, go away.


Date: 10/3/2004 4:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Around 9/30/2004 6:53 AM, Gene Kearns wrote:

On 30 Sep 2004 00:32:38 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:



all-chain rode has been in use just few years...



Oh? Really??

http://home.comcast.net/~galmgren/ot...vid-Sghets.jpg

Picture taken in the mid-1960s. All chain rode, both then and now. Not
uncommon.

Maybe he meant a few [score of] years?

--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

junnie, when you are an asshole -- and you, junnie, are a flagrant example --
you, junnie, can expect that people will point out your, junnie's, asshole
behavior.

you, junnie, have never contributed a single item of value to this ng at any
point. you, junnie, lack the native mental candlepower to contribute anything
of value, and you, junnie, use your asshole behavior to try to cover up your
abject stupidity.

go stand in the corner, junnie. adults are in a conversation.


Date: 10/3/2004 10:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

On 03 Oct 2004 12:32:39 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

sorry if English is confusing to you guys. the use of the term "in use just
a
few just years" in the context in which it was used ***CLEARLY*** indicated
"in
------------------ common ------------------ use just few years."

geesh, are you really that dumb or are you just being assholes because you
have
nothing to contribute and you like being assholes?


Another classic. Jax calling somebody an asshole.

--



Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Southport, NC.

http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage
http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC
is located.
http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats
at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide

Around 10/3/2004 7:41 AM, Gene Kearns wrote:

On 03 Oct 2004 12:32:39 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:


sorry if English is confusing to you guys. the use of the term "in use just a
few just years" in the context in which it was used ***CLEARLY*** indicated "in
------------------ common ------------------ use just few years."

geesh, are you really that dumb or are you just being assholes because you have
nothing to contribute and you like being assholes?



Another classic. Jax calling somebody an asshole.

Wow, stating facts and offering some helpful speculation makes someone
an asshole these days? I had no idea.

Anyway, like I said, all chain rode has been in common use for decades.
I suspect mainly because it holds so well.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Anyway, like I said, all chain rode has been in common use for decades.
I suspect mainly because it holds so well.


a.) all chain rode only became popular on recreational boats when boat owner
got old, fat and bought boats big enough to need need anchors over 20#, and

b.) all chain doesn't hold very well at all in a blow. If you doubt that,
check the anchorages during and after the next blow, see which boats dragged --
due to an "act of god", of course -- and which did not. then check to see how
they anchored.

NObody chains a boat to a dock or rock onshore. why would anyone chain a boat
to a rock under the water? (ans: they don't. they fully expect their anchor
to drag.)

Wow, stating facts and offering some helpful speculation makes someone
an asshole these days? I had no idea.

you still have no idea. junnnie has never once stated a fact correctly (even
by accident) and his off-the-frickin-wall "speculations" came from reading
comic books as an adult. junnie is almost as dumm as box-of-rocks jeffies, but
jeffies has a wife to watch over him to fix a whole bunch of his particularly
stupid mistakes.

JAXAshby wrote:

a.) all chain rode only became popular on recreational boats when boat owner
got old, fat and bought boats big enough to need need anchors over 20#, and

All chain rodes have been used and reasonably popular since long before
you started going to boat shows.


b.) all chain doesn't hold very well at all in a blow. If you doubt that,
check the anchorages during and after the next blow, see which boats dragged --
due to an "act of god", of course -- and which did not. then check to see how
they anchored.

A "blanket" statement, you obviously can't back up with experience and
show that you are unaware that there may be various causes for a boat
dragging which have little to do with the all chain rode.


otn