Rub rail - rope insert question

Wanted to touch up one side of my rub rail on my 85 2001 as a few areas were loose. Removed the rope, soaked it in bleach water to whiten it up some then tighted and straightened up the suspect areas. All in all things were going well until I came up short with the rope not reaching the back of the boat / center where it was initially. I was taking time to stretch the rope out after every foot I put back in the rail channel but, I still came up short. I really don't want to go through this excercise again so will probablly just place a loose piece in to fill the void. Can anyone tell me if I can just order this rope from CC or any place online to get it?

Appreciate any input from the group.

Steve B

go to a hardware store and get some rope! I havent taken mine out , but what keeps the ends from unraveling is it burned or whipped to prevent this?

Steve,I replaced mine last year,used normal 5/8 x 50'cotton rope found at any marine supply store.

I just replaced mine. Went and bought 50' of 5/8" 3 strand nylon. Took off the back plate to pull some old rope out and see how quickly I was going to be able to do the replacement.

The rope that came out was 1/2" I don't know if it started out as 5/8" and was compressed to 1/2" over 30 years or if it replaced with 1/2" some time.

The 5/8" that I bought was not going in there since the rubber was not much like rubber anymore. So I went and got some 1/2".

To put the 1/2" in there I had my son hold the hair dryer on a section (which was a trick getting a 3 yo to hold it in the right spot) and I used a white rubber mallet to pound the new rope in.

Now I have a new 50' 5/8" dock line. lol

I just looked that up. That's pretty cool. I might've used that.

How can I change my Metal rub rail to the rope!