You are talking about polyprop. It is used a ski line because it floats


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
Hopefully, it'll keep some of the stink boat yahoos home. Probably the
ones who are stretched thin financially to begin with. They're easy to
spot. They're the ones in a $50,000.00 floating Camaro, which come to
the dock with a 5 foot piece of plastic rope at each end of the boat.
"That real rope's purty expensive".



"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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From Oakland County, Michigan


Will gas prices dock boats?
Enthusiasts may keep craft out of water, but businesses doubt it

As the weather warms and boat owners begin putting their craft in the
water, the businesses that cater to them are speculating how record gas
prices will affect the sport.



Plastic rope? What? There's a replacement for manilla?

Remember manilla rope? Man, that stuff was easy to splice, not like
today's "plastic rope," even the good plastic rope. Had a nice hand to
it.

You know the plastic rope I'm talking about? The stuff that's so light,
you can't throw it? Gets all kinked within days of bringing it home, and
holds the shape forever? It's so much fun to watch some boaters attempting
to dock with that stuff on a windy day.

Eisboch wrote:
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Yeah, the yellow crap. Floats. I hate it.

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But it does have a useful purpose. The plastic, floating, brightly
colored
line is recommended (or maybe even required) for use with a life ring
or
other mob floatation device.

Or as a waterski tow line.

Eisboch

Some people cut it into short lengths, unwind it into its individual
strands and leave a little in the path of jetskis where it gets sucked
into the pumps and melts which shuts them down until the pumps are
overhauled. Boy, some people. Here's a reprint from Rolling Stone
magazine which has something to say about gas prices and the end of
civilization... Sam
http://www.bobandsheri.com/show_text...ID=100&show=bs

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Yeah, the yellow crap. Floats. I hate it.

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But it does have a useful purpose. The plastic, floating, brightly
colored
line is recommended (or maybe even required) for use with a life ring
or
other mob floatation device.

Or as a waterski tow line.

Eisboch

Some people cut it into short lengths, unwind it into its individual
strands and leave a little in the path of jetskis where it gets sucked
into the pumps and melts which shuts them down until the pumps are
overhauled. Boy, some people. Here's a reprint from Rolling Stone
magazine which has something to say about gas prices and the end of
civilization... Sam
http://www.bobandsheri.com/show_text...ID=100&show=bs


I'd like to buy "some people" a beer for thinking that one up. :-)

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:22:07 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:06:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Yeah, the yellow crap. Floats. I hate it.

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But it does have a useful purpose. The plastic, floating, brightly
colored
line is recommended (or maybe even required) for use with a life ring or
other mob floatation device.

Or as a waterski tow line.

Eisboch

Yeah, but not as docking line. If rope's not heavy enough to throw, it's
useless. Sometimes, you can simply drop that plastic crap and it'll defy
gravity & land in the wrong place. Too light & springy.

My emergency throw bag has a braided poly rope and I can personally
speak to the effectiveness of having floating rope on a throw bag.

Right, but that's not your everyday rope, now is it, Mr Smarty? :-)

Well, I guess not.

Oh and thanks for the compliment - I am pretty damn smart.

Later,

Tom

"Don White" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:


Geez, Bert, do we really need to see evidence of your pottymouth?

Bert's an odd guy. The only times he posts, he uses foul language.
Must be a barrel of fun around his marina/club.

Old enough to know that you are a sniveling little punk that can't think for
himself!

"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:


Geez, Bert, do we really need to see evidence of your pottymouth?

Bert's an odd guy. The only times he posts, he uses foul language.
Must be a barrel of fun around his marina/club.

Old enough to know that you are a sniveling little punk that can't think
for himself!



Have you ever seen a milquetoast Don White post that stands on its own or
supports his unique position?

Don is, after all, nothing more than an insecure follower of Krause who
constantly has his head up Krause's ass and needs to find some sort of
security posting positive local newspaper articles about his town.

"JimH" wrote in message
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:


Geez, Bert, do we really need to see evidence of your pottymouth?

Bert's an odd guy. The only times he posts, he uses foul language.
Must be a barrel of fun around his marina/club.

Old enough to know that you are a sniveling little punk that can't think
for himself!



Have you ever seen a milquetoast Don White post that stands on its own or
supports his unique position?

When Don initiates a post it is one that is from new source that is not
favorable to the US or one which supports his lazy union ass.

Don is, after all, nothing more than an insecure follower of Krause who
constantly has his head up Krause's ass and needs to find some sort of
security posting positive local newspaper articles about his town.

Notice that it goes, Bert's post, Harry's response to Bert's post, then Don
comes along and attempts to pile on.

Bert Robbins wrote:
snip usual c*ap...

Notice that it goes, Bert's post, Harry's response to Bert's post, then Don
comes along and attempts to pile on.


Hee hee...I was wondering when your girlfriend JimH would break his own
peace accord and attack me again. This is the 3rd or 4th truce he's
broken since the New Year. You two make a good couple.

"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:
"JimH" wrote in message
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:


Geez, Bert, do we really need to see evidence of your pottymouth?


Bert's an odd guy. The only times he posts, he uses foul language.
Must be a barrel of fun around his marina/club.

Old enough to know that you are a sniveling little punk that can't think
for himself!



Have you ever seen a milquetoast Don White post that stands on its own or
supports his unique position?


When Don initiates a post it is one that is from new source that is not
favorable to the US or one which supports his lazy union ass.


Don is, after all, nothing more than an insecure follower of Krause who
constantly has his head up Krause's ass and needs to find some sort of
security posting positive local newspaper articles about his town.


Notice that it goes, Bert's post, Harry's response to Bert's post, then
Don comes along and attempts to pile on.


Frankly, Bert, I think you, Hertvik and Tuuk share the same double-digit
IQ.

You're the only marine I know of from the 1980s who never got an overseas
billet. Were you a behavioral problem, or was it just plain stupidity?

It was called USMCR.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:06:24 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Yeah, the yellow crap. Floats. I hate it.

--

But it does have a useful purpose. The plastic, floating, brightly colored
line is recommended (or maybe even required) for use with a life ring or
other mob floatation device.

Or as a waterski tow line.
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Polypropylene. Also useful as a dinghy painter since it's less likely
to end up in your props. It is nasty stuff though.