Green rope?

[Kukri]

Would you be superstitious about buying green rope?

 

[westhinder]

No.
Not about anything else either

 

[Black Sheep]

Would you be superstitious about buying green rope?

No. I remember buying a lovely length of green line to use as a mainsheet in Ramsgate. I'm convinced it was at a discount price because so many sailors are suspicious about having green on board.
No bad luck at all - though to be fair I didn't sail the boat much after I got the green rope, as that was just before the mast fell down.

 

[Kukri]

I just spotted a main halyard’s length of green 12mm Liros dyneema for £99 and said “snap”. Since the current main halyard is three years old 12mm green dyneema, which I may well have bought from the same place, and the topping lift is a very manky bit of three strand, and interchangeable with the halyard, I now have an almost matching pair!

 

[Daydream believer]

There are quite a few boats in the marina, which have green ropes- For just about everything.
Not sure if it brings them bad luck, because they do not go anywhere to get any

 

[Goldie]

I had a green rope aboard, a few boats ago and well known sailmaker declined to come aboard. Mind you, the hull was a lovely dark green too…..

 

[Kukri]

Thompson’s Aberdeen Line had dark green topsides; it didn’t do the “Thermopylae” any harm, and Overseas Containers Limited used the same colour.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Green ropes are fine as long as only used on the starboard side.

 

[mjcoon]

Might need to use a sensitive technique to detect mould...

 

[Sandy]

Would you be superstitious about buying green rope?

No.

 

[NormanS]

My mooring pennant is made fast aboard with two strops, which are of slightly different lengths, to match the position of the bow rollers.
One strop is red, the other is green. (For obvious reasons).

 

[blush2]

Most of them turn green in the winter anyway.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

I thought the superstition was to do with wearing green clothing?

 

[Kukri]

I thought the superstition was to do with wearing green clothing?

That explains why you never ever see green clothing on a boat! Thanks!

 

[NormanS]

That explains why you never ever see green clothing on a boat! Thanks!

Oh dear! And there's me with my (summer weight) green wellies and green flexothane waterproofs.

 

[DownWest]

Never occured to me and my jibsheets are green. (with a fetching trace of red..)
But then some have aversions to green cars.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Never occured to me and my jibsheets are green. (with a fetching trace of red..)
But then some have aversions to green cars.

I think green is fine (think Racing Green), I just wouldn't have a brown one.

 

[LittleSister]

No. At least I wouldn't have been in the past, but now I come to think of it my use of green rope could explain a thing or two!

Perhaps green rope explains the old blues lament, 'If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all'!

And pursing that line of thinking, maybe there's a need for a 'Green Rope Blues'? Perhaps something along the lines of -
?
Woke up this morning
Green rope on my mind
Woke up this morning
Green rope on my mind
Now my woman/money/drug dealer/crewmate* done gone left me [*Delete as applicable]
But the chandlery didn't have no other kind
?

 

[dancrane]

I was thinking this thread would be about rope made from sustainably sourced fibres, something like that. I realise it sounds unlikely, but I never heard of any superstitions over green items on board either.

All the whistling rabbits I keep on board, are green.

 

[westhinder]

I was thinking this thread would be about rope made from sustainably sourced fibres, something like that. I realise it sounds unlikely, but I never heard of any superstitions over green items on board either.

All the whistling rabbits I keep on board, are green.

Don’t you need a priest or a black cat?