Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

For many of us, it matters not whether docklines are braid or twist.
Hell, I remember splicing manila rope.

Do you also remember claiming:
1. To be a Yale graduate
2. To have owned a Hatteras
3. To be married to a medical doctor
4. To own a Zimmerman-like lobster boat?

Cheers, Old Boy. Many dreams of yesteryear.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:36:10 -0500, HK wrote:

As usual, Whine, you are full of crap.

No wine before its time.

Real men and real boats anchor with chain. Braid is for LT wussy
boats.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:36:10 -0500, HK wrote:

As usual, Whine, you are full of crap.

No wine before its time.

Real men and real boats anchor with chain. Braid is for LT wussy
boats.


Yeah? Try that along the edges of the ICW, when you are trying to anchor
as quietly as possible so you can sneak a bait up to tailing redfish 20
yards away. Oh, wait...you can't *do* that with that barge of an
floating RV of yours...you'd run hard aground. Too bad.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:11:15 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:28:13 -0500, HK wrote:

When you fish the ICW in NE Florida, you
move around alot from spot to spot, and might drop and raise your anchor
50 times in a day.

Another reason I don't fish ;-)

That's not fishing. That's playing with an anchor.

--Vic

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

On 16-Feb-2008, HK wrote:

For many of us, it matters not whether docklines are braid or twist.
Hell, I remember splicing manila rope.

I MISS splicing manila - the plastic stuff is a pain.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

HK wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:36:10 -0500, HK wrote:

As usual, Whine, you are full of crap.

No wine before its time.

Real men and real boats anchor with chain. Braid is for LT wussy
boats.


Yeah? Try that along the edges of the ICW, when you are trying to anchor
as quietly as possible so you can sneak a bait up to tailing redfish 20
yards away. Oh, wait...you can't *do* that with that barge of an
floating RV of yours...you'd run hard aground. Too bad.

Harry,
You really are sounding EXACTLY like Skipper when he would make silly
comparisons between his perfect boat and other peoples boat.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:28:13 -0500, HK wrote:

When you fish the ICW in NE Florida, you move around alot from spot
to spot, and might drop and raise your anchor 50 times in a day.

Another reason I don't fish ;-)


It's great fun...you get to raise and lower a trolling motor, too.

Harry,
It is hard to imagine how you raised and lowered your motor 50 times
when you went out fishing. You were never away from your computer
longer than 1 hr.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

Steve wrote:
On 16-Feb-2008, HK wrote:

For many of us, it matters not whether docklines are braid or twist.
Hell, I remember splicing manila rope.

I MISS splicing manila - the plastic stuff is a pain.


Yeah, it is. I've never gotten to like it for splicing. Manilla was far
easier to "work" when you were splicing it.

Cordage - 3 strand vs Braided Dock Lines
 

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:54:40 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is
Here wrote:

HK wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:28:13 -0500, HK wrote:

When you fish the ICW in NE Florida, you move around alot from spot
to spot, and might drop and raise your anchor 50 times in a day.

Another reason I don't fish ;-)


It's great fun...you get to raise and lower a trolling motor, too.

Harry,
It is hard to imagine how you raised and lowered your motor 50 times
when you went out fishing. You were never away from your computer
longer than 1 hr.

In an eight hour fishing trip, he raised and lowered his anchor about every
9.6 minutes. Now, if it only took a minute to lower and set, and a minute
to raise, that left 7.6 minutes for fishing at that location. Personally, I
think it would be too damn hectic a way to fish!
--
John H