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Re: Carry toggle rope length
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 3/3/2002, 11:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: Carry toggle source? *Pic* (Ross Leidy)

I like to make my carry toggle ropes shorter than most people do.

When the toggle rope is long enough for the toggle to slip past the end of the boat and drag in the water, that quiet little splish-splashing drives me to near insanity!!

Shawn

: Make your own. Some scraps of wood, a little shaping, and you've got a
: toggle. I put an arc on the "finger end" of this one in an
: attempt to make it more confortable. I used scraps from the walnut and
: lacewood inwales from my Wee Lassie II project.

: Ross

Messages In This Thread

Material: Carry toggle source?
Chris Menard -- 3/1/2002, 3:19 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Scott e. Davis -- 3/4/2002, 1:25 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Gini -- 3/3/2002, 11:10 am
Re: Material: Carry toggle source? *Pic*
John Schroeder -- 3/2/2002, 9:54 am
get a Birch dowel rod at a hardware store. *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/2/2002, 1:02 am
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Gini -- 3/1/2002, 8:00 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 3/2/2002, 3:10 am
Re: Material: Carry toggle source? SAFETY
jim kozel -- 3/1/2002, 8:32 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Tom -- 3/1/2002, 7:37 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 3/1/2002, 7:10 pm
Re: Material: Carry toggle source? *Pic*
Ross Leidy -- 3/1/2002, 4:10 pm
Re: Carry toggle rope length
Shawn Baker -- 3/3/2002, 11:11 pm
Re: Carry toggle rope length
Gary B. -- 3/4/2002, 9:29 pm