Hambro line

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a strong light line made in Hamburg, Germany, used for tracking canoes.

Quotations

1793

The canoe line is not a stout cable as used by Boats but consists of fine Hambro lines loosely twisted upon one another and is about 60 yards long.

1798

Each canoe had . . . a few Hambro lines [and] a bundle of watap. . . .

1933

Hambro lines were, according to Landmann, part of the standard equipment of every canoe, but neither he nor Macdonell gives any description of them.