Four strand laid line.

[john_morris_uk]

Maybe, but I should think they would still have enough stretch to work as mooring lines.

I hope so or else I’ll be seriously hacked off!

 

[Star-Lord]

I bought some new mooring lines the other day in Spain. Two things were odd. Firstly the line wasn’t sold by the metre but by the kg. Second it turned out to be four strand laid line. I didn’t notice until I got back to the boat and started to whip the ends. I’ve never seen four strand before…

They sell lines by weight in Tunisia. It's all white and very cheap.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Four strand rope is relatively common in natural fibre ropes such as hemp. It is a rounder rope, with less stretch than three strand, hence it is called "shroud laid" rather than "hawser laid". It is a slight oxymoron having four strand in nylon, unless they required a very strong rope with less stretch than a conventional three strand nylon. Normally four strand ropes are laid up around a central core or heart rope (in effect four strands plus a core). In the case of hemp ropes this core is often sisal. If you are making up dinghy or boat fenders you can remove this core rope and work in a flexible wire rope so that the assembly can be fastened to the boat by means of two rigging screws on the transom. It is also useful feature for disguising electrical cables feeding decorative lamps hanging from a ceiling etc.

This definitely has no core.

 

[Sumara of Weymouth]

I hope so or else I’ll be seriously hacked off!

I find you can have too much stretch in some mooring lines causing the boat to surge back and forth on its springs. This four strand could be just the ticket!

 

[Hacker]

A bit like a 10 year old Vauxhall Victor...

My fathers brand new one (early 60’s) had rotten sills at 12 months old.

 

[boomerangben]

I was beginning to think this thread was going along the lines of the Yorkshire sketch (Brooke-Taylor/Cleese/et al) and am waiting for “when I was a lad you had to pluck t’tails of a yearling unicorn, spin them in moonlit glade the day after Micklemass….”

 

[Frogmogman]

“How much line should we put out Skip ?”

“Oh, about 10kg should do it” ?

 

[Neeves]

Strength is determined by weight, the amount of raw material/cordage being used. Why would you expect anything else?

If you had 10mm steel tube and could make it into a chain you would not expect t it to have the same strength of solid wire.

Don't believe me

Ask Marlow.

Jonathan

 

[Graham376]

Our mooring strops are 4 strand plus a centre core, sold by weight at commercial/fishing boat chandlers. Leisure boat chandlers usually sell by the metre.

 

[SaltyC]

I started sailing in the 60s, and I certainly remember fathom charts and still have some in use. I also remember when rope was sold by its circumference. However I didn’t ever buy rope in the sort of quantities or sizes that needed to be weighed in those days!

DITTO, however as I was but a mere 'boy' I never bought the rope so cannot comment on how it was sold.