"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.