Current lines behind the boat?

[The Chairman]

For those not willing to splice or learn to splice, a double or rewoven figure eight knot will hold poly braid just fine. Here's a brief instruction: How To Tie A Double Figure Of Eight Knot (Made By You)

 

[Nemrod]

For poly lines you can purchase a cheap device, I used to use discarded pens, a pointed plastic cylinder that you place an end into and then push it into the other line and weave it through, then repeat for the other line and it is a pretty good splice. N

 

[dannobee]

For poly lines you can purchase a cheap device, I used to use discarded pens, a pointed plastic cylinder that you place an end into and then push it into the other line and weave it through, then repeat for the other line and it is a pretty good splice. N

It's called a "fid." Good word for scrabble and crossword puzzles, too.

 

[The Chairman]

Calling the plastic tube for doing poly rope splices a fid somehow seems to do a grave injustice to most fids! I own a few and a few marlin spikes as well. Splicing rope is fun.

Splicing Poly Rope

Here is a proper fid:

 

[dannobee]

Calling the plastic tube for doing poly rope splices a fid somehow seems to do a grave injustice to most fids!

If you think that's a grave injustice, you should get in the water with some people who call themselves "divers."

 

[NEWENGLANDCHARTERS]

When you set your anchor. you have the typical Danforth with 10 to 30 ft of 1/2" chain then shackled to a 600 to 1,000 ft of 1/2 nylon line.

when your in a lot of current or the waves are large you add a lead sled that slides on a bushing just abouve the chain to kep the scope angle flat the the line goes up to the Glousta Ball. I like to use the 36 " type like this as it gives plenty of bouyancy without popping your anchor.

I use a 36" Glosta ball like this for anchor retrival.

this is typical of the underwater structure thet we dive on in New England.




A while back my dive buddy linsay came uo with a unique way of dealing with a pesky lobsterman that harrassed us every time we dove by running his boat over us to try and hit us and dropping bricks. Linsey put his 12 Ga Bang stick on a 10 ft pole and just waited for the lobster boat to run over him. POP! Made a nice hole in the bottom of the boat. that lobsterman never did bother Linsey again.

 

[Walter]

I see, so "glouster ball" is a local name for a ball buoy.

 

[Nemrod]

It's called a "fid." Good word for scrabble and crossword puzzles, too.

Yeah, but, it was asked what a glosta ball was so I figured I should be more basic and just call it a plastic tube thingy.N

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Here is a simple trick I started doing many years ago.

Just run a piece of 1/4 inch braided steel cable tie wrapped to your floating 3/8 poly line that you run 100 ft behind your boat to your dive bouy.

1/4" would be sink the poly. Maybe 1/16" stainless aircraft cable.
;-)

Fortuately, in NorCal (where PeterC, the OP, and I, live) we don't
have problems that need that solution.

I've got a bigger problem when the MPYC lays out their sailboat
race right through my already anchored Whaler.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

One more thing: I've done a ton of splices. I have a fid, figured out renal
quick I didn't NEED a fid. Just open, push it through, pull, done.

And I'll stand by my opinion that braided poly has no business on a boat
except as a ski rope.