John Slee wrote: > Martin Phillips wrote: > >> I'm looking for a replacement little bungy cord loop thingy with a >> button on it that goes through an eye of my front deck cover >> and hooks round the fixing on the hull.
> Do you mean button, or ball with a hole through it? A ball with a hole in it. I lost one at the weekend, having imagined without actually looking that they were attached to the cover. >> No idea what they're called, which makes searching for them tricky. >> Do chandlers sell them? I usually keep well >> away from such places. > Certain chandlers do - we got ours from Uxbridge Boat Centre - bought > their entire stock of two, ISTR. > > I believe Braunston rope shop (not sure what they are called either) > stock them too. Also Devizes Marina have had them in the past. Ta! I shall have to pay a visit and a lot of money to one of those sorts of places. Wassail! I had to replace some on my cratch covers, and, being a Yorkshireman, I looked for alternatives <g> I found a rather large, hippy style, necklace, which had the appropriate sized beads on it, in a charity shop. I had to drill out the holes a little for the elastic to go through it and it has worked very well for the last 2 years John & Caroline nb Charlotte Rose __._,_. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
