Rope bags

In another board, I read that we can use old pants legs of jeans to keep our hands clean when removing hitches http://xs-s.com/zf/images/smile/emthup.gif .....but I have 2 more uses.

Instead of throwing out your old jeans (or just the legs when us rednecks make our "cut-offs" http://www.bassboatcentral.com/boardstuff2/beers.gif ) use those pant legs in your truck box or on your boat. Have you ever needed a rope from your truck box quickly and it is tangled with your bungee cords http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/mad.gif or just caught up in everything else? Just sew shut one end of your cut off pant leg and put a draw sting in the other end. You have a durable bag and your rope won't come undone in your travels. http://xs-s.com/zf/images/smile/emthup.gif

For the boat, make a "throw bag". Same as before, sew shut one end of the bag, only this time, leave a hole just big enough to thread your rope through. On the other end, make a drawstring closure.
Then tie a knot in the rope, approximtely 2 feet from the end so that it will not pull through the hole you left. Then thread the 2 foot section through the bag so it now sticks out the sewn end. On the 2 foot piece that is now sticking out, tie a loop end. (You can thread the rope through a large styrofoam ball in the bag for bouyancy if you wish) Now just shove the rest of your rope into the bag portion one foot at a time until just one foot sticks out. Tie a loop in that end as well and sinch the drawstring closed.
If you ever have to throw a rope to another boat, persons on shore, or in the water, just losen the drawsting slightly, HOLD ON TO the long end of the rope that sticks out of the drawstring end and throw the bag to your target. The rope will feed out of the bag in flight and the weight of the rope will let you throw it farther and more accurately than a coiled up one.


Modified by iwillkechu at 1:50 PM 2/10/2005

Learn something everyday. Thanks for the tip!

They worked for me. Keeps things neat and organized in the truck box and safe on the boat!

Sounds like a good idea but try this one on for size. Take those big gatorade bottles you can pick up at any gas station and drill a hole in the bottom. Run some nylon rope through the hole and tie a knot. Now stuff the bottle full of rope dont try to be neat and dont try to organize it. Just stuff it in there till its full tie a knot at the end and you can close the lid and store it. We have about 20 of these we use for swift water rescue training. You can throw these bad boys like a football with great accuracy. Just be careful not to tag the person in the head but hey its plastic they will live.

Sounds like a great idea Bill. When ya go to throw it do you just hang on to the end ya tied a knot to and let er rip and how much distance can ya get with that setup

Just remove the cap and pull out the end of the rope and put under your foot. With a little slack in the rope you can underhand throw it or overhand throw it. I cannot remember the exact length we could throw them but I know they went further than rope bags.