Choosing The Right Rope

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• 212rowboat Member Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2013

  using different colors for different length dock line is floggin' brilliant.... and it never crossed my mind.. good read!!!
  

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• TikiHut2 Member Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 edited July 2013

  
  Arrgg, hey there swabby while there might be soap on a rope, I was always told that there is no ROPE on a boat.... :ar!
  
  Not unlike most, my sailboats were covered with dozens of "colored lines" for trimming sails in nearly every hue just to keep them somewhat clear as to what's what. I've gotten so used to just hitting the key to make my new venture go that this never crossed my mind either. Great idea on our beloved stinkpot too.
  
  Enjoying life on the dark side with my smoker, seriously. Mike
  
  

  2004 FV270, 300hp 5.7 350mag MPI Merc 305hrs, 2:20 Bravo3 OD w.22p props, 12v Lenco tabs, Kohler 5kw genset, A/C, etc.etc...

  Regular weekender, Trailer stored indoors, M/V TikiHut, Sarasota, Fl

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• Black_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2013

  We call it poka-yoke in the manufacturing world: mistake proofing.  Different colors ID the line length (or diameter), I did mine this way more of habbit than thinking of it lol.  Slowly swapping over my transient lines for the same reasons.

  Past owner of a 2003 342FV
  PC BYC, Holland, MI

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