Mooring lines

[mickrick]

Navy is actually a good idea, as is black, as white lines look grubby pretty quickly. I'm all for looking smart and shipshape, but not at the expense of function.
Besides, braid doesn't have much stretch in it.

[Simpo Two]

mickrick said:

Navy is actually a good idea, as is black, as white lines look grubby pretty quickly

Which is exactly why I'm getting new lines. Me and Mr Jones next door have a scrap on!

Helipad, that'll fix him...

[mickrick]

A friend of mine said he did actually see a yacht in Miami with a big cardboard cut out helicopter on board

[Fishtigua]

On one 220' superyacht, we had to make up white mooring lines with elk hide coverings over the whipping. The only way to clean them was to lob them in the deck Jacuzzi on a hot wash and bung in a box of handwash detergent from the laundry. A couple of deckies would then trample them with their feet, like crushing grapes, as we steamed along leaving a long spume of bubbles in our wake.

[Simpo Two]

That's so good it's Pythonesque!



'Elk hide coverings? I'd never stoop so low. Freshly killed mink for me'.

[mickrick]

Ay, the things you have to do to earn a buck.... Feels like I have my life back now I'm shore based. Next weekend, Easter, public holidays like everyone else!
Off to the IOM classic on the war horse at the end of August, instead of sweating my nuts off catering to the whims of some fool. yippee! (Money's shyte though! But at what price a life?)

[EarlOfHazard]

Simpo Two said:

HMS Simpo could do with some smart new mooring lines for 2015, and I can either pay top money in a chandler or by some cheapos from eBay. Then I remembered that B&Q sell all different kinds of rope - if I found one that looked the same (12mm navy) would it do the same job or rot away in 3 weeks?

FFS: I almost googled HMS Simpo. haha