BUNGEEEEEEE - DID SOMEONE SAY BUNGEE

[don l]

Curtisv wrote,

"halyards back so they don't slap the mast when on the mooring"


I like that.

[Craig Weis]

No slap on my halyards, tied down tight with sail ties.
Be kind to your neighbors dockside.
Be kind to the lines as they do all the work for you.
skip.

[Potcake boy]

Unbelievable - I think our group has been infiltrated by some malicious motorboaters.  Did I hear the suggestion that we stifle those marina melodies by restraining our halyards with, of all things BUNGEES?  Jimmy Buffett would be rolling over in his grave - or is he still alive?  I think proponents of bungees should put their loyalty to the supreme test and be required to do a bungee jump over Royal Gorge before espousing the virtues of these creations of convenience. I just hope I don't live long enough to one day be watching the latest remake of Bounty starring Russell Crowe and spot bungees holding down cargo on deck. I do think that bungees could have played a feature role in a 3 Stooges episode had they been invented a few decades earlier.

Tie me down lads - and make sure you use rope.

Ron

[Craig Weis]

The only 'rope' on a boat clangs the bell, all other's are lines.
Sail tied are Velcro. skip.

[mrb]

I agree,  Bungees are right up there with compasses and all those other crutches that todays sailors seem to need, we should go back to old driftwood logs or bloated carcases to cross the water


we can maybe add spell check to that list of usless needs I'll nowe for shure after next post,

[Bob23]

   Spelcheek teeches people howe knot to speel. An it certainly don't do no one no good to teach 'em about correct sentence structure. In my opinion, the only way to learn to spell correctly is to spell correctly. However, some people just can't do it. My father in law is one- a 90 year old master sailor with a near photographic memory and probably a genius IQ, he spells at about a 8th grade level. He knows it; doesn't bother him a bit. He can outsail anyone I know and back in the day, when he raced Lightnings, folks would wait in line to crew for him. 
   Sure, bungees have thier place. But just not here in my place. As a working builder/carpenter, I regularly tie stuff on my Tundra racks and a friend (and fellow sailor) and I have this same ongoing debate. I use rope. (on the truck, it's rope friends) I know the right knots, can tie almost anything pretty quick, and I can see when the ropes getting worn.
   Bungees, alas, can betray one by breaking or pulling out of the the little hooks when that little metal thing that cinches the cord decides to give up the ghost.
   How many bungees do you see on the road compared to hunks of rope?
   Me, I'm too much of a traditionalist to have bungees aboard but too open-minded to insist that no one else does. But, I just realized that my sail-ties are bungee cords with those little plastic nubs that hook in the loops of the bungees. Tell me they don't really count, please!
   Most of the utility lines on my ship are not marine cordage. Yep, you heard me right. I refuse to spend the big bucks just to wrap the sail cover or hold the tiller in place or tie off my roller furler while moored. Tell me that I'm still accepted here! This doesn't make me a bad person, does it?
Bob23..can you believe we are having this conversation???

[mrb]

But I feel so good when I use spell check and find I have not need it.

What was yesterdays flight of fancy may become tomorrows necessity with the proper marketing.

[ka8uet]

I mean the metal and fiberglass thingies that keep my leg bone connected to my ankle bones, as the song says. Feet in braces, braces in shoes, off I totter!

[David V.]

So where do we draw the line? Would a bungee - shockcord - gilguy toting land lubber be frowned upon by the same sailor who is unrolling the furler, putting coordinates in the GPS and switching to auto-pilot. If so, maybe what we really have here is a class issue. Curious.

David-V

[Bob23]

THAT' IT!
   I'm tradin' all my lines in for...for...dare I say it: BUNGEES!!!
Well, not really. I like tying and learning new knots. While rummaging through my starboard locker the other day, I came upon a bungee. Yes, folks, me the knot-tying Bob23 has a few bungees aboard Koinonia. She doesn't mind. I don't mind. I suppose the trick in this life is to not make mountains out of molehills. Bungees are molehills. Besides, we are all Compac-tors here, right? We all sail, right? We all like a bit of green water slapping us on the face from time to time, right?
  Our differences are what make us interesting.
Bob23- off to find my book of knots.

[kchunk]

Well said Bob. And with that, how 'bout we lock this topic and throw away the key!

[Bob23]

Amen...and a long time coming!
Bob23

[Craig Weis]

I simply don't use 'spandex' anything type bungees because knowing me I'm too cheap to toss them when they become dangerously frayed and have a tendency to snap, taking out my eye! Then my view of women in spandex would be lopsided. Is that right "Captain Ron"? I liked that movie.
skip.

[Gil Weiss]

After selling me CP 16/3 to Rick I had to "re-bungee" for my CP19. My trailering and storage drills use a combination of bungees and lines, but mostly bungees. I also use bungees to hold my mainsail to the boom under the sailcover. My anchor is bungeed to secure it to its bracket. I use them to secure my sheet lines and halyards.

Bungees have their applications and can really be useful in many places. Bungees are typically faster to use than line. 

Bungees are good . . . my 2 cents, Gil