3/4" Twisted Three Strand Anchor Rope Boat 200 feet Long

Needed some quality rope for a swing and a ladder for the kids. I was amazed how expensive rope can run, so this was a bargain. Looks like a white rope. I'm not needing to tie up my yacht or anything, but for my use quality was fine. Prompt, quick shipping.

All of the issues that you have read about for this product are true. First of all, it is NOT 150 feet. Mine measured 139 feet 10 inches. The thimble that is spliced into the end redefines garbage. it is non-ferrous (I checked it with a magnet) but it is very thin, and I can bend it straight with my bare hands. The splice around the thimble is very loose as previously described; I was able to remove the thimble with a simple twist. They used a 4 tuck splice. I was always taught that that you never trust your life or your boat to less than 7 tucks. The ends are all quickly hot-knifed (slow knifing melts the ends more, reducing the likelihood of unraveling) and they are not whipped or sealed in any way.So why buy it? Why did I give it three stars? Because it was the cheapest way i could find to get 140 feet of 3/4 nylon line to make new dock lines. It is less than half the price of 5/8 pre-made dock lines (too thin for my application) and about $30 to $50 cheaper than other bulk lines of about the same length. The one review that I saw that suggested that this may be polypropylene because it floated I cannot substantiate. My lines sank like a rock, exactly as you would expect from nylon. Nylon is also a soft material where polyprop is very stiff. After 50 years of boating I can tell the difference between nylon and polyprop rather quickly. For my application I took the bulk line, cut it into 6 equal segments and spliced my own eyes and whipped the ends. If you plan to use this for anchoring, you MUST replace the thimble and re-splice. Otherwise, you are buying 140 feet of 3/4 nylon to use for whatever OTHER purpose you might have.

I replaced the original anchor rope on my 16x66 houseboat with this rope and I've been very happy with it. I've used it now for 2.5 seasons and it's held up very well under all sorts of weather conditions. One thing that I like about it is that it will float on top of the water when there's no load on it. This could be good or bad. Good: if the line breaks, it's a lot easier to find your anchor! Bad: I prop my outdrives up to prevent the rope from snagging them when the boat rotates around the anchor at night and early morning when the wind dies. Only problem I had with it was the stamped 'thimble' (holds the shackle loop) bent and fell out after holding our boat for a day in a storm. I went to the local Ace Hardware and bought a new heavy cast thimble and worked into the loop again. Good as new!

The quality of the 3 strand nylon rope is questionable. Is seems to stand up well to chafe and continously switching dry/wet conditions, but the twist in the strands is loose, very loose. So loose actually that I deceided to make an extra 2 weaves on my splices for fear that the customary 3 might at some point work themselves loose.The thimble fits the description in the dictonary but is totally useless being made from a very thin peace of a soft metal alloy. it will bend break and possible damage the eye in the rope rather than protect it.A plastic coner is shrunk around the juction of eye and line and hides the "shotty attachment" - for lack of words, certainly this is not a spliced eye as implied in the product picture. (Note: the product name does not mention "spliced eye with thimble" as it should not as that is not what you will get).I am certain this rope can be used as an anchor line and will serve well as such after removing the eye & thimle part. Although due to the loose twist, it may be hard to recoil after use.I made this purchase with the intention of cutting the rope into 25 ft sections and splice it onto a mooring ball bridle. After 2 months I am happy with the rope and how it works for me. The wet/dry condition and continous streching while the boat is moored to the ball has stiffened and firmed up the lines nicely.I would recomment this rope for use as mooring bridle or anchor line on a boat that anchors aften for longer periods of time. I would not use it for an occasional short anchoring nor would I use it as docking line. The thimble is just a sales gimmick, toss it!

Have yet to install. Should serve well in holding my trawler.

Excellent quality marine/pier rope. We are using this as handrail/decor/ fall barrier between postGood quality nylon three strand twisted- The thimble and eye were not important to me-This was inexpensive rope and that is what I needed, and that's what I got-For more important jobs I would buy accordingly-

well the rope is great I use it for pulling logs, but the shipper went the extra mile getting me this rope sent another shipment while my first order was lost in transit and super fast responce to any e-mail i sent felt super at ease that any problem I had would be worked out. thanks again

Cheap price, and cheap quality. As soon as you take it out of the box it will look and feel cheap. The thimble is of the thinnest gauge metal I've ever seen for a thimble--totally worthless and it fell out of the eye anyway. Just as well, because it isn't galvanized and will rust overnight.