Rope rubbing strake

[RutlandMike]

Hoping someone here can help. I'm refitting an old day boat and would like to fit a rope rubbing strake. Problem is I can't seem to find a supplier. Any ideas please? I could also do with some advice on how to fit it once I've found it!

Many thanks

 

[ghostlymoron]

Jimmy Green has a good selection of rope or use an online supplier. Most people use traditional looking rope for a rubbing strake - you can get some synthetic ones that look like hemp. Fix them with cable ties round one strand for a discrete fastening. I've only ever done it on a dinghy.
Get it here http://www.euroropesuk.co.uk/polyhe...ir-bannister--many-more-applications-23-c.asp others may be cheaper

 

[philip_stevens]

Hoping someone here can help. I'm refitting an old day boat and would like to fit a rope rubbing strake. Problem is I can't seem to find a supplier. Any ideas please? I could also do with some advice on how to fit it once I've found it!

Many thanks

My old clinker skiff (Cornish for rowing boat - scath) had a rope rubbing strake. I made it out of 3inch sisal rope, with spliced eyes at the end. To fit it to the gunwhale, two holes were drilled through, and one strand was copper-wired with the copper twisted inside the boat. The eyes were tied to brass screw-eyes in from the corners of the transom.

Around the bow, a "pudding fender" was made up to go over the 3inch sisal. Any spare sisal was doubled and whipped to make fenders to hang over the side, tied to a stringer inside the boat.

I no longer have the boat, as I sold it to the grandson of the boat-builder who built the boat. She was built in 1956 at a cost of £65!! Six very similar were built, but none remain afloat.

 

[RutlandMike]

Thanks ghostly. I've had a look at euroropes but they seem to only do up to 36mm diameter and Jimmy Green 50mm. Ideally I'd like something closer to 100mm.

 

[RutlandMike]

Thanks Philip, that sounds like an excellent way to mount it! Very helpful.

 

[ghostlymoron]

Thanks ghostly. I've had a look at euroropes but they seem to only do up to 36mm diameter and Jimmy Green 50mm. Ideally I'd like something closer to 100mm.

Wow! What boat have you got - supertanker?

 

[Bobobolinsky]

Anchor Supplies Nottingham (sorry no pun)

http://www.anchorsupplies.com/

The ropery at Chatham Dockyard

 

[philip_stevens]

Thanks ghostly. I've had a look at euroropes but they seem to only do up to 36mm diameter and Jimmy Green 50mm. Ideally I'd like something closer to 100mm.

Try a Fishermans Cooperative - maybe Cosalt - or inland waterways chandler.

Some rope and fender bits here.

Some more canal boat ropes here.

 

[RutlandMike]

Thanks guys, I'll try them all out.

 

[Ubergeekian]

The ropemakers at Hawes do some blinking big stuff and their prices seemed quite reasonable - though in the end I found some synthetic hemp-alike stuff on a reel at the chandlers in Neyland.

 

[tidclacy]

Try www.despawson.com Got a couple of rope fenders from him a few years back they are still going strong. Will give you lots of advice and help if you ring him.

 

[Quandary]

This is how to finish it, unlay about 12'
except for one strand, cut off the rest
at about 2' or whatever taper this neatly
then finish the taper around a bonze or
plastic ring, bind with a strand that has
not been unlaid in a spiral finishing this
tight around the rings. problem is you
waste more rope than you use if the
binding strand is part of the original
but it looks very professional.

 

[RutlandMike]

Excellent all, thank you. Apologies for the late acknowledgement. For some reason I couldn't access the forums last time I tried. Looked like I was being blocked by a pop up script.

 

[ditchcrawler]

This guy has sisal,hemp and manilla up to 36mm dia and i have used him alot.
www.outdoorxscape.co.uk Look in the canal boat section

 

[essexboy]

You could try these people, mostly shipy but worh a look
http://www.woods-group.co.uk/