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Welcome to Marine Rope Service
We specialize in producing premium dock lines – both permanent and travel – designed with quality chafe gear and whippings in many colors and styles, including chain-to-cleat and clip to ring configurations.
When you realize your dock lines could be better, call Marine Rope Service.
Our double braid lines and splices are “state of the art.” They meet the ANSI, OSHA, and UL “Standards for High Performance Rope” required by the Longshoremen, Miners, Ironworkers, Arborist, and Window Cleaners Unions.
You can depend on them.
Marine Rope Service
“Your Dock Line Specialist”
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.
Good 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 mooring lines to their proper role as simple, well-engineered safety systems with appropriate chafe gear.
We determine your dock line requirements and deliver long lasting solutions you will be proud to own and use.
SERVICES:
Marine Rope Service brings generations of experience to provide reliable product.
We also produce matching fender lanyards, dinghy painters, and lashing lines.
Marine Rope Service will restore existing lines with hot knife end trim and many choices of whippings for a fresh, well-maintained look.
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 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: 510-829-2060
PRICES:
Starting at under $100: For a dock line with your choice of colors, spliced eye size, and location of chafe gear – including an adjustable chafe sleeve for the dock cleat (or ring).
Up to $200: For a line featuring a spliced eye and 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, or clip at the dock end for the cleat or ring.
Final price will also vary with line size and length.
TERMS:
All 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 FORM below:
You can describe or send photos of your boat and lines, and we will determine and deliver the best dock line system for you.
Or, you can request a consultation in the San Francisco Bay Area at your Marina, Yacht Club, or other convenient location.
CONTACT:
Phone calls are always welcome.
I check texts and emails daily.
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 value.
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 and use.
M.R.S. GALLERY OF HORRORS
ABOUT DOCK LINES:
Quality lines are easy to handle and they make a good impression when at home – or traveling.
There is almost always more than one way to do anything on a boat, and that includes dock lines. Craftsmanship, ingenuity, technology, intended use, environment, and traditions are all involved.
Chafe Is the Enemy of All Lines, and the Most Common Cause of Failure.
Quality dock lines with proper chafe protection look good, handle well, and will provide long-lasting value for many years with a minimum of care.
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 with many opportunities to see the good, the bad, and the ugly of dock lines.
Born in New York City, he began his love of the Ocean at age 5 with a move to Cuba. At age 11 he was in the St. Croix (USVI) Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program, and at 15 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.
LIST OF REFERENCES:
Gil de la Roza, Alameda, CA 2015
•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.
