List: trawlers@lists.trawlering.com
From: Sean Welsh
Re: T&T: "Poly" rope confusion
Fri, Mar 28, 2008 9:59 PM
"Nylon", which is actually now a generic name (first
coined by duPont) for an entire family of fibers with somewhat different
characteristics, is technically a "polyamide."
So all the line you've discussed is "poly" of one sort or another, which
makes sense, since virtually all man-made petrochemical fibers are made
from polymers.
FWIW.