Hi, Shortly after I purchased the Celestial, a hurricane came wandering by. I ran an anchor line out about 150' on both bow and stern. I had not had time to outfit the boat with Chafe-Pro protectors as I later did. So, I raided the rag-bag and my closet and got 6 (I think) pairs of old denim jeans and cut them up, one leg for each line where the line would touch the boat. I split each pants leg on the inner seam and cut them off just below the pockets. I then split the ends and made tie-tabs on each end. At the boat, everywhere the rode touched the boat, hawse hole, anchor davit, or deck chock, I tightly tied one end of a leg to the rode, then wrapped the line with the denim so it would lay flat and overlapped the proceeding wrap until I reached the tie tabs at the other end of the leg and lay where I wanted it to. I wrapped it opposite to the lay of the rode. The storm came and went and I removed all of the chafe-protecting denim pants legs. There was quite a bit of chafe on the anchor rode's denim legs and where, when the tide/surge came up, the bow lines rubbed the top of the bow. None of the rodes were damaged, except where the stern lines crossed. They had no chafe protection, as I thought that when one was tight, the other would be loose, so they would not chafe. Wrong. The spring lines stretched more than I thought they would, so the fore-aft motion caused by the wind gusts pulled both stern lines tight - hence the chaffing against each other as the boat "danced" to the buffeting winds. The stern lines were only slightly damaged but I replaced them anyway. The hurricane went farther west than forecast, so we really did not have a great amount of strong winds and I was able to go on the boat and observe how everything was holding up. Ultimately, I was very surprised at how well the denim material held up to the sawing motion, especially on the anchor rodes and bow lines where they passed through the deck chocks.
