Rope

[Vitamin Sea]

G'day

I need to get a couple of hundred metres of anchor rope for the boat, I was thinking 10mm silver.

Can anyone recommend where I can get some at a reasonable price? East or southside of Brissy would be good.

Also was looking for a bin to put it in, any ideas there?

Cheers

Bill

[skipalong]

ats nets ropes would be your best best for all that ... clontalf on the redcliffe peninsula.

[johncar]

G'day

I need to get a couple of hundred metres of anchor rope for the boat, I was thinking 10mm silver.

Can anyone recommend where I can get some at a reasonable price? East or southside of Brissy would be good.

Also was looking for a bin to put it in, any ideas there?

Cheers

Bill

That's heavy line Bill if its for off shore anchoring in 50 + metres. I would be thinking 8mm at heaviest but prefer 6mm personally for less drag, less space required so 300+ metres, it will break rather than your boat if it gets badly snagged. 6mm with about 100M or more out still takes a lot of breaking and I use it with a special shear anchor design, so it hardly ever happens.
I use about 5 metres of 6mm long link chain and the first 10 M is 10mm rope for chaffing resitance on the bottom, the rest is 6mm spliced into the 10mm.
For just anchoring up in the shallows and pulling up by hand, 10mm is easier on the hands though.

Don't know the best place to buy it but just ask for quotes at the local chandleries or online, shouldn't be hard to find a good deal. I have found the Nally bins to be the best, had the same ones for years, tough as, but haven't bought for so long not sure who stocks them. Got mine from Taylor Marine originally.

[Roughasguts]

Have a look at Telstra rope It be a lot cheaper and better on your hands, that silver rope is bad news when it gets under your skin.

Cheers

[tropicrows]

Try
OFFSHORE TRADING Unit 2/ 27 Ada St Coopers plains ph 32777400

[Noelm]

not too sure I would be using Telstra rope on a boat that size! or 6mm for that matter, buy some decent rope and be done with it, even though it can be slippery, polyethelene is very good, lasts almost forever, silver rope is nice and soft on your hands, another thing about the Telstra rope, I was told (by Telstra guys) that it is biodegradable, that is, it breaks down and "rots" takes a while, but it will loose strength reasonably quickly (so they told me) and I must admit, I have some I use to tie stuff in my ute, and it is about 12 onths old and quite ratty even though it spends most of it's life in the cab.

[Vitamin Sea]

thanks fellas, especially Skip

Decided to go with 12mm following advice from the supplier (ats nets), 250m x 12m rope + 7m of 8mm standard link chain delivered for $150.

I do the occasional overnighter out wide and I did not want to be worrying about anchor lines breaking if the weather comes up, which I have had happen a couple of times.

Thanks

[cormorant]

Did you end up with nylon or just silver rope?

I won't go back to silver stuff as the nylon is just so much easier to handle , stronger but is a bit more expensive.

We also end for end our ropes as we keep them as long length and it gets a bit more life out of them if you do it well before it is needed. Forces you to check it's quality and wear or any damage.

[Noelm]

Thank goodness you did not get 6mm "cotton" for an anchor line.

[Vitamin Sea]

Thank goodness you did not get 6mm "cotton" for an anchor line.

Was NEVER going to happen Noel, I know of blokes on this site who have had 12mm snap in a storm.

[Vitamin Sea]

Did you end up with nylon or just silver rope?

I won't go back to silver stuff as the nylon is just so much easier to handle , stronger but is a bit more expensive.

We also end for end our ropes as we keep them as long length and it gets a bit more life out of them if you do it well before it is needed. Forces you to check it's quality and wear or any damage.

Hi

Ended up getting silver, once again that's what the suppliers said they sold 99% of the time for anchor lines, good enough for me.

Thanks

[Searaider 2]

Hay Bill ,
Sounds like you got the bits & pieces for a great price .
Pete.

[captain rednut]

hey bill your new boat looks great, i know a bloke who likes hondas and may need a ride?? (DS) Lol, i hope i might see you on the water soon i am about 4 weeks away from launching.
cheers Jim

[Smithy]

Great price!

I use 8mm. Only lost one anchor in 4 years of commercial opeation. I use it for the water drag factor and 330m fitted in a fish tub easily. It is harder on the hands though There is a massive jump up in surface area to 12mm. I find it hard enough hanging on some spots on sand now with a 15lb plough and 4m of 10mm close link. Just about to go to a 20lb or 27lb tripped plow and 5/8 chain for the upcoming cobia season. If people are snapping 12mm I bet it has rubbed off on bow rollers or had existing chaffing or something. If you look at the rated breaking strains 8mm is massive.

[cormorant]

We have always added more chain on boats and depths we have had trouble holding anchor at. The anchor itself we have used some very lightweight ones a that still bite as the chain does most of the work. Chain used to beat bigger anchors to the bottom and dive mates showed me a few times how it tangled and would never set properly. Different bottoms are all different and we with a full cabin had lot of windage so plenty of veering .