Chafe protector for lines

[david36]

Does anyone know a good source in UK of chafe protection material for anchor rode, dock lines etc. There seem to be plenty in the USA but few if any suppliers seem interested in such small value orders to Europe. The sources of ten years ago in UK seem to have vanished.

 

[Benbow]

old hose works well

 

[scarlett]

I use those corrigated tubes you find in old washing machines, ready split, used to protect the electrics from chafe. Too small for chains though, when I sometimes wrap rags round the chain at the roller.

 

[Benbow]

In the past, I had an unsplit length of large diameter toilet outlet hose permanently threaded onto anchor rode and normally slid all the way to the inboard end. It was then easy to run it down to sit over the bow roller when needed. (This was a combined anchorplait/chain system).

To keep it in place I had a couple of small holes near each end through which a light line could be run and tied off somewhere convenient.

For mooring warps, I used smaller diameter hose, also with holes near the ends for light line. This was simply threaded on as needed. I worried that split hose would distort under load and leave a sharp edge. But I never tried it.

 

[robind]

Heavy peices of lorry siding type material lined with a heavy felt type material formed into a tube and fixed around the lines with poppers is a cheap way to protect those lines too. Your local tent manufacturer should be able to knock them up for you if you want something that can be colour co-ordinated.
Rob

 

[MedMan]

As already mentioned by others, lengths of plastic tubing about 50cm long work well for dock lines. We keep a bag full in the rope locker.

For our anchor chain I have made up a permanent piece of 18mm nylon rope that runs out through the bow roller and has a chain hook on the outboard end. The section that passes through the bow roller has a length of heavy-duty plastic tube slipped over it. When using our second bower anchor which is on 18mm plaited nylon rope I secure it using a mooring line suitably protected with plastic tubing and rolling-hitched onto the anchor rode outside the bow roller. That way my anchor rode suffers no chafe at all.

 

[Mirelle]

Reinforced hose. But it has drawbacks

The obvious one is that hose of suitable diameter for the warp won't pass over a splice, so needs to be put on when making up the warp, if it has splices in it, and if the warp is long the bit of hose will always find itself at the wrong end of the coil.

The less obvious one is that this stuff is not immortal; I use it on my buoy strop and it cracks across, at the point where the bend (quite gentle - 6" diameter bow roller!) comes, after a few weeks.

 

[meows]

Re: Reinforced hose. But it has drawbacks

Try and get some old grit blasting hose - its great and lasts for ages.