A dock line is easy to ignore until the weather turns. Then it becomes the one piece of gear standing between your boat and ...
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10-16 Dock Line Size Chart: Pick the Right Diameter and Length for Your Boat
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10-09 Nylon vs Polypropylene Rope: Strength, Stretch, Float and Best Uses ComparedFew questions come up as often in our conversations with shipyards, ports and industrial buyers as nylon versus polypropylen...
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10-02 Nylon or Polypropylene Rope: How to Choose the Right Material for Your JobFew questions come up as often in our workshop as whether to choose nylon or polypropylene rope. It is a fair question, beca...
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09-25 High Strength Cable Hauling Rope 150m Looped Ends Breaking Strength GuideWhen a job calls for pulling heavy cables through buried conduits, across open water, or between tower structures, the rope ...
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09-18 Polypropylene Rope: Key Properties, Common Uses, and How to Choose the Right OnePolypropylene rope has earned its place as one of the most widely used synthetic ropes in the world. It floats, it shrugs of...
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09-09 Mooring Ropes for Boats: How to Choose Material, Size and ConstructionMarina staff pull the same kinds of failed lines out of the water every season: a polypropylene dockline that turned powdery...
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09-02 Weather Resistant Rope: Best Materials, UV Resistance and Marine Buying GuideA polypropylene mooring line tied off in April and inspected in September usually tells its own history: the colour has blea...
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08-26 The Main Types of Braided Rope: 3-Strand, 8-Strand, 12-Strand and Double BraidPick up a mooring line on a bulk carrier, a towline on a harbour tug, and a lifting sling in a shipyard, and you are holding...
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08-19 Braided vs Twisted Rope: Which Construction Is Stronger and When to Use EachWhen a 12-metre workboat sits alongside a quay with a spring tide running, its mooring lines take the full load of the hull....
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08-12 Polypropylene Rope Strength: Breaking Loads, Safety Factors & Selection TipsYou are selecting a mooring line for a 40-foot workboat, and the supplier hands you a specification sheet that lists a break...
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08-05 Polypropylene vs Polyester Rope UV Resistance: Full ComparisonPolyester Rope Has Far Better UV Resistance Than Polypropylene If you only need one answer: polyester rope is significantly ...
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07-29 Polypropylene Rope vs Polyester Rope: Key Differences, Advantages, and Application GuidePolypropylene rope and polyester rope differ mainly in three areas: polypropylene is lighter, floats on water, and costs less...
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