measuring lifelines ?

[Brian Duff]

How do you measure for lifelines ?

by this I mean what format do you measure and record teh lengths to build to ?

I am in the habit of always pinning my tape (0") at one end pulpit, and then recording the distance to each relevant fitting- so that you might see - turnbuckle 0" at bow pulpit, 24'8" to single gateeye and pelican at lifeline gate stanchion, to 29' 10" at stern pulpit with toggle. or whatever.

Whats your usual way ? - I have run into some confusion as we don't own a swage machine ( hate the things , but I think one is on its way to my shop any day now) so we order them from other suppliers, and sometimes they come wrong.

I wanted to come up with a standard I could argue with !

lol