Anchor snubber to a rope rode

[PetiteFleur]

As a quick and easy alternative, what about a bit of this?

RABALDER white, Cable tidy, 5 m - IKEA

Just slip it over the octoplait where it goes through the bow roller and it'll wear instead of the line

My experience of this is that it won't last long - our boatyard used to fit them to our swinging moorings , but would chafe through very quickly, on a fairly sheltered mooring.

 

[JumbleDuck]

No, I think he was slightly unclear. What he meant was that a rode is typically sized larger than a snubber would be for the same application (for safety sake--it is OK if a snubber fails, but not if the rode fails), and thus the rode will be less stretchy, for any given length, than a thinner snubber would be.

Perhaps Neeves could confirm what he meant? Your generous interpretation does not seem to me to match his words.

This is unarguably true. This, in part, is why I interjected that if you are going to deploy the rope portion of a mixed rode, a substantial minimum length is required.

Perhaps, for shock loading. In general, of course, a length of rope has no idea whether it is being loaded by more rope or a piece of chain.