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Marine Rope Service
Dock Line Specialist
Secure your boat with quality dock lines.
We produce permanent and travel dock lines featuring chafe gear with professional splices and whippings in a variety of colors and styles – including chain-to-cleat and clip-to-ring configurations.
Our double braid lines and splices meet the Cordage Institute “Standards for High Performance Rope” required by Longshoremen, Ironworkers, Arborists, and Window Cleaners.
You can depend on them.
Give your boat the dock lines you deserve.
Call Marine Rope Service today.
510-829-2060
WELCOME ABOARD
Point Richmond, CA: The Chevron Refinery, Pt. San Pablo Y.C., KKMI & Svendsen’s-Bay Ship Boatyards from the Sugar Docks on the deck of “Eros.”
ABOUT:
The San Francisco Bay Area has many quality Marinas with high performance boats secured with poor quality dock lines. Owners invest heavily in their boats and systems and all too often treat the dock lines like an afterthought.
Dock lines are frequently the boat’s most neglected gear.
Quality dock line installations are becoming increasingly rare. Materials can be difficult to find, and do-it-yourself can be time consuming and provide unsatisfactory results.
The future will present you with many things to be concerned about – your dock lines should not be one of them.
Marine Rope Service is restoring dock lines to their proper role as simple, well-engineered safety systems with appropriate chafe gear.
We will determine your requirements and provide long-lasting product that you will be proud to own and use.
SERVICES:
Marine Rope Service delivers reliable product.
We also provide matching fender lanyards, dinghy painters, and lashing lines.
Fancy knot applications and other maritime services are available by request.
GET STARTED:
CUSTOM DOCK LINES MADE FOR YOU AND YOUR BOAT… GET STARTED!
CHOOSE YOUR DOCK LINE COLOR:
Red, Navy Blue, Forest Green, Black, Silver/Grey, White, White/Gold
CHOOSE YOUR WHIPPING COLOR:
Red, Yellow, Royal Blue, Navy Blue, Green, Forest Green, Orange, Pink, Beige, Brown, Black, White
CALL TO ORDER: 510-829-2060
These are custom dock lines and will require choosing options and taking measurements.
Describe or send photos of your boat and lines, and we will deliver the best dock line system for you.
OR REQUEST A CONSULTATION in the San Francisco Bay Area at your Marina, Yacht Club, or other convenient location.
Ask about single-handed docking line systems.
PRICES:
Start at under $100: For a dock line with your choice of line and whipping colors, spliced eye size, and location of chafe gear – including an adjustable chafe sleeve for the dock cleat (or ring).
Less than $200: For a (long) line featuring a spliced eye with chafe gear on one end, additional chafe gear as needed, and a spliced H.D. galvanized or 316 stainless steel thimble with the appropriate chain & shackle for the cleat, or fastener for the ring at the dock end.
All combinations are possible.
Prices vary with line size and length.
TERMS:
Lines are custom-made and require a 50% non-refundable deposit.
The remainder is due upon delivery.
CALL or TEXT: 510-829-2060
EMAIL: Gil@MarineRopeService.com
OR: Use the CONTACT (now) FORM below
CONTACT:
Phone calls are always welcome.
510-829-2060
Location
Marine Rope Service P. O. Box 70656 Point Richmond, CA 94807
Phone Number
510-829-2060
Gil@MarineRopeService.com
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A quality vessel secured by mediocre cordage is an incomplete system. The lines you handle every time you cast off and return are an important part of the security and appearance of your boat – and a properly designed well-made dock-line system is a relatively small investment that provides lasting functional value and visual elegance.
Look closely at your current dock lines. Is there room for improvement?
Perhaps it’s time to put the old behind you, and bring your boat up to the standard it deserves. Let’s make your dock lines part of the working gear of your boat that you will be proud to own – share with crew – and use.
M.R.S. GALLERY OF HORRORS
ABOUT DOCK LINES:
Quality lines are easy to handle and make a good impression when at home – or traveling.
Chafe Is the Enemy of All Lines, and the Most Common Cause of Failure.
MARLINSPIKE SEAMANSHIP:
Marlinspike Seamanship is the Art of working with line or rope. Marlinspike is a nautical term for a metal spike-like tool used in working with wire or fiber rope, called a marlinespike. A similar wood tool used with fiber rope is called a fid.
BREAKING STRENGTH CHART:
Tensile strength is the maximum stress a material can withstand before it breaks when pulled apart. This chart gives you a relative idea of average values.
MARITIME PROFESSION GLOSSARY:
This is an unusual and thorough glossary of traditional and professional Maritime terms.
The proprietor of Marine Rope Service, Gil de la Roza, has had a lifetime of boating experience. Born in New York City, his lifelong love of the Ocean began at age 5 when his family moved to Cuba. At age 11 he joined the St. Croix (USVI) Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program, and at 15 he moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in a full racing schedule with Mercury, I.C., and A/B Ocean Racing. He skipped his high school graduation to deliver a 57’ Chris-Craft to Canada and spent the following year as first mate on a 72’ Ocean Racing Yacht, where he acquired the “hobby” of Marlinspike seamanship and fancy-knot tying.
Since then, Gil has sailed and Captained boats around the world, and until recently owned and maintained four boats docked in San Francisco Bay Area Marinas.
Gil de la Roza, Alameda, CA 2015
LIST OF REFERENCES:
•Jock McLean & Paul Kaplan, KKMI
•Sam Elliot, Svendsen’s Bay Ship
•Cree Partridge, Berkeley Marine
•Mark Miner, Rubicon Yacht Sales
•Tom Relyea, South Beach Riggers
•Scott Easom, Easom Rigging
•Patrick Whitmarsh, Quantum Sails
•John Arndt, Latitude 38
•Matt Ford, Blue Pelican Marine
•Jay Fowler, Whale Point Hardware
•Mark Vandenberg, Richmond Y. C.
•Millie Biller, Inverness Y. C.
•Martin Fae, South Beach Y. C.
•Gil Jacobson, SFFD Marine
“Making the world a better place, one dock line at a time.” G. d. l. R.
