Re: [bolger] Re: Cartopping

Search for tubular webbing on West Marines site or cut and paste this
URL if you want to see what it looks like. Lots of deep water cruisers
use it for a safety line fore and aft to snap there harness line into.
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&productId=46983

HJ

jas_orr wrote:

>Tubular webbing is woven in a tube -- with no edges, but it looks
>like regular webbing at first glance as it's flattened out. The
>stuff I've used has a softer feel that regular webbing.
>
>Jamie
>
>--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "dbaldnz" <oink@p...> wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks for the information Jamie.
>>I have not heard of this. What does tubular webbing look like? A
>>tube?
>>DonB
>>
>>
>>
>

Tubular webbing is woven in a tube -- with no edges, but it looks
like regular webbing at first glance as it's flattened out. The
stuff I've used has a softer feel that regular webbing.

Jamie

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "dbaldnz" <oink@p...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the information Jamie.
> I have not heard of this. What does tubular webbing look like? A
> tube?
> DonB
>
> > Our elegant punt has too much sheer to cartop upside down on the
> > van, so it has to go right side up. I normally put it up there
> > stern first -- the way I tied it down made it less likely to fly
> off
> > that way.
> >
> > But what I wanted to say was that I use tubular webbing for tie
> > downs -- this is the webbing climbers use. It is very strong,
> easy
> > to tie and untie, and does NOT mark the paint or dig in at the
> > corners the way rope will.
> >
> > I use a trucker's hitch, as illustrated by Chuck L., and have had
> > the boat up there for several hundred miles and a week or more
> > without any loosening.
> >
> > The only potential problem is that nylon stretches when wet, so
> you
> > should check it in the early morning, and often if it's raining.
> > (Nylon rope will also stretch.)
> >
> > Jamie Orr

Thanks for the information Jamie.
I have not heard of this. What does tubular webbing look like? A
tube?
DonB

> Our elegant punt has too much sheer to cartop upside down on the
> van, so it has to go right side up. I normally put it up there
> stern first -- the way I tied it down made it less likely to fly

off

> that way.
>
> But what I wanted to say was that I use tubular webbing for tie
> downs -- this is the webbing climbers use. It is very strong,

easy

> to tie and untie, and does NOT mark the paint or dig in at the
> corners the way rope will.
>
> I use a trucker's hitch, as illustrated by Chuck L., and have had
> the boat up there for several hundred miles and a week or more
> without any loosening.
>
> The only potential problem is that nylon stretches when wet, so

you

> should check it in the early morning, and often if it's raining.
> (Nylon rope will also stretch.)
>
> Jamie Orr

Just had to add my two bits....

Our elegant punt has too much sheer to cartop upside down on the
van, so it has to go right side up. I normally put it up there
stern first -- the way I tied it down made it less likely to fly off
that way.

But what I wanted to say was that I use tubular webbing for tie
downs -- this is the webbing climbers use. It is very strong, easy
to tie and untie, and does NOT mark the paint or dig in at the
corners the way rope will.

I use a trucker's hitch, as illustrated by Chuck L., and have had
the boat up there for several hundred miles and a week or more
without any loosening.

The only potential problem is that nylon stretches when wet, so you
should check it in the early morning, and often if it's raining.
(Nylon rope will also stretch.)

Jamie Orr