wonkywinch
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I bought one of these Trem Lead Lines from a large chandler a few years back but never liked the piece of thin board it came wrapped on, very easy to drop it all in the water I feared. Yesterday I decided to cut up a piece of timber and make a better thing for it with a hand hold for easier deploying and retrieving. Once done, I thought I'd just check the calibration of it and was shocked by the inaccuracy. The markers are all about 1.2m apart and by the time I got to 5 of the 50 metre marks, it was already over 6 metres long.
Either my tape measure is wrong or these things are calibrated in 2/3rd fathoms. Fortunately the little plastic marks are easy to unclip and move so I'm just waiting for a rainy day to recalibrate it.
Either my tape measure is wrong or these things are calibrated in 2/3rd fathoms. Fortunately the little plastic marks are easy to unclip and move so I'm just waiting for a rainy day to recalibrate it.