Rope Bag

[excavman]

When you open a can of worms re-canning them always seems to take a larger can, Murphy's Law. The same can be said about a new sleeping bag. Once you take it out of the factory storage bag/carry bag it is almost impossible to get it back in. Well, I found a good use for that empty sleeping bag bag.

In preparation for my upcoming trip I dug the big anchor out of its storage place under the front of the v-berth. The rode was a balled up tangled up mess. It is 150 feet of 3/4 inch three strand nylon.

I read somewhere that the best way to keep a rope from getting tangled is to stuff it helter-skelter into a rope bag and pull it back out as needed.

Need I say more?

[Captain Smollett]

The same can be said about a new sleeping bag. Once you take it out of the factory storage bag/carry bag it is almost impossible to get it back in.

Hmmm.  I've never had that problem with a sleeping bag.

Tents, on the other hand ...

[Oldrig]

I read somewhere that the best way to keep a rope from getting tangled is to stuff it helter-skelter into a rope bag and pull it back out as needed.

I stuff put my anchor rode into the bow locker in a loosely coiled figure-8. It works well for a three-strand nylon rode.

Of course, you've got to have an anchor locker for this to work. :)

--Joe

[Tim]

If you feed it in from one end it will come out smoothly, just like in a anchor rode locker. I have stuffed hundreds of rescue ropes that way.