If you remember from my last post, I told you all about the crappy weather we had on our Spring Fling trip to Port Arthur. Well, one line snapped....
And the rest of them look like this, or worse....
So when we returned from our trip we made all new dock lines for the boat! Luckily for us, we had found a bundle of line that was just over 300' long for $60 bucks at the boater's resale shop awhile back. That was way too good of a deal to pass up and we knew we would need it eventually....looks like "our eventually" has showed up!
Can you believe the marine store wanted twenty-something bucks each, to splice the rope themselves....they said, it was "labor intensive"? Um, no thank-you, we'll do it ourselves!
Ripping the duct tape off my legs wasn't near as eventful as when Joe ripped the pieces off from his legs! Hahaha, if only I would have snapped a photo of his bald spots!! 😂
Getting the line ready to splice it....
Not too shabby for my first attempt....
Joe using his mad-sewing skills...
And viola....the end result!
All new dock lines!!
A closer view....
And, we made up a couple spares....because apparently, you can never have too much rope, I mean line, (but really, it's rope)!! 😉
