Camping and Fishing Adventures

Ever have to replace your anchor rope?

Replacing an anchor rope can be an easy task if you have a tool.  I've acquired a case from a larger ballpoint pen which I'm using as a fid.  Our anchor rope is about 40' long and 1/4" thick, so not having a rope fid was just fine with me.

First you thread the rope into the fid and loop them through the anchor hole on top.  Make a big enough loop so you can bring it around and insert it through the rope about 2" from the hole.

Then you just bring the fid and rope around and insert about 1/2" below the loop you made near the hole.  Push the fid up inside the main rope far enough so your rope is snug at the bottom and pull the fid out of the rope and pull it tightly until it's snug with the loop you made near the hole.  You can then cut your tag end of the rope that's out of the main rope and pull it until the tag end is inside the anchor rope.

This will never come loose because it's basically locked since you passed it through the small loop at the hole.
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