Remided me of a couple of lines from Three Men in a Boat a very funny book I read a long time ago, written by Jerome K. Jerome and published in 1889. "There is something very strange and unaccountable about a tow line. You roll it up with as much patience and care as you would take to fold up a new pair of trousers, and five minutes afterwards, when you pick it up, it is one ghastly, soul-revolting tangle." The behavior of lines, or rodes, hasn't changed much since then. Steve Willett Monk 36, Gumbo Thibodaux. Louisiana