And if you were in your "wet" yacht , you tie one end of any rope to the stern somewhere and trail them behind for a while, takes all the kinks and crap out of the rope/sheet what ever.
Hey desert... bloody hell mmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaatttttttte 
I can assure you there are NO calf ropers out here 
I wouldn't say that loud in a pub here, thats a peeda file term 
" Heavens to Betsy......OH, Lordy NO !!" 
The cheaper rope (like the stuff from bumblings) tends to have an outer casing that is a bit too sloppy for the inner rope core.
One of mine was a bit worse than usual, so I hooked one end to my cars bumper, cut the other (melted) end off to free it up, then stretched the outer casing by using a pair of heavy leather gloves and just gripping the rope near the bumper and hauling back until I got to the end of the rope, cut the excess outer casing off (about 3' worth iirc)and remelted the end.
now it runs through my elcheapo recycled pulleys much better!
Did the same with same sourced rope and ended up with extra 5 mtrs from a 20 mtr rope. Still washed with fabric softener to make more pliable.
Ta for that guys.
Looks like I will be on laundry duty some time this week eh??
I'm on school holidays. Thats why it is dead calm here and raining.
Always the case eh???
Ropes Lines and knots; pretty basic........ NOT!
I have always used the kitchen gas stove to melt the ends of my lines together, but sometimes the perfectly melted outer does not melt to the perfectly melted inner line, creating a perfect disaster..... Any tips to the perfect the perfect melt?
Also, the prusik hitches look great on the LLM boom And they're VERY easy to slip fore/aft on the boom to adjust. Once I find the perfect place, the rope through the boom might be more permanent, but this looks great
Thanks again for the help
John
Those Prussics look good. But, humour me, try the Formation of the Prussic Loop I suggested earlier then do the Hitch. Getting the loop size right is the hardest bit but you have given yourself a head start with those knots.. If the Loop Join is at the back of the Prussic where the Block part comes out it will rest against the knot and looks very neat indeed. The ends of the line. I usually tie in a permanent loop then Melt the end and using a cold piece of metal flatten the end in a mushroom back against the knot. That way the tail can't creep back through. No nasty Frayed Tails spoiling your efforts.
Ron
A small soldering iron works well on rope to cut and seal them, a little slower than a flame but it produces a nice neat end.... and it doesn't turn black like a candle melted end.
Let's face it after a bit of use they all fail. Even properly Hot Knifed cuts and they are square and not particularly nice to handle.. I use a Small butane Blow Torch, which gives of some intense heat and the knots finish up with nice solid taper a fecal analogy could describe it[}:)]. but even with the heat involved after a lot of use the ends have to be redone. None of it, Like Life, is permanent. Don't be lazy just live with the inevitable.
Ron
