Whipping twine works nicely and available in all the colors of the rainbow. It’s good for holding together the ends of all your halyards and jib sheets etc too. On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:05 PM John Schinnerer via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
So far I have just marked anchor rode intervals with a thick black permanent marking pen ("Sharpie" or similar). It fades out after a while but it's pretty quick & easy to just re-mark.
The more durable/long lasting and more visible way I have seen (and may do some day :-) is to get some bright colored tubular nylon webbing, 1/2" or 3/8" will do, cut short pieces with a hot knife (or heat seal ends some other way after cutting), and weave the pieces thru the rode at the desired intervals with a bit sticking out (assuming 3-strand rode, which is easy to do this with).
cheers, John
On 2/20/24 22:45, Jim Sadler wrote:
How are you skippers marking anchor chain/rope?
How much chain do you carry?
Thanks
Capt Jim
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