What diameter dock lines should I use?

[bostonhatteras]

I had 3/4” lines made with 18” eyes with New England Rope via Defender.

Not sure that they are still doing custom stuff though.

Defender has quit doing any rigging or splice work. They are a generic mail order/drop ship retailer now. Sad

 

[bostonhatteras]

Try Hamilton Marine, still a family owned and operated marine retailer. They just made me a new rode, produced in 4 days, of 300' Yale 3/4" 8 plait spliced to 100' 3/8" ACCO G43 chain and with me picking up it was $1350. Next closest price was 1850 and that was R&W Rigging in New Bedford MA. On top of that R&W couldn't promise domestic materials I'm sure youll find their price and service more than acceptable. https://hamiltonmarine.com/splicing/

 

[rsmith]

Watch out for the Chinese stuff. A friend had a connection with a “windage” company in Baltimore. Got a good deal on several spools. Spool was marked 3/4 but measured somewhere between 5/8-3/4 with the caliper. Was hard to splice too.

 

[Briankinley2004]

I always go with the largest that are designed for my boat's cleats. Formula I was taught was 1/16" of line diameter per every inch of cleat length. So a 12" cleat would use a 3/4" line. An 8" cleat a 1/2" line etc.

 

[JD5652]

Just replaced my lines on my 1976 58 LRC that weighs in around 50 tons.

Used 3/4" double braid all around. Had them put a 36" eye splice on one end of each line and added built in chafe protection on the eye.

Had four (4) 40' lines and four (4) 75' lines custom made.

Paid $145 each for the 40 footers and $185 each for the 75 footers.

Had a custom red, white and blue tracer pattern done as well.

They were great to work with and delivered as promised. Would use them again in a New York minute!

Home - Miami Cordage

 

[rsmith]

The other thing is cleat size. Most Hatt cleats will only handle 3/4 if you have 2 lines per cleat.

 

[JD5652]

My new lines from Miami Cordage..

 

[JD5652]

More pics of new lines...