Painter line assembly

A bung-plug assembly for allowing an outer-end portion of coiled rope to extend through a hole in a life raft canister while allowing payout of said coiled rope through said hole when an outside end, which is outside said life raft canister, has a significant force applied thereto relative to said life raft canister and for supporting said coiled rope inside said life raft canister so as to allow said payout upon application of said significant force, said bung-plug assembly comprising:

• a tubularly-shaped housing for holding said coiled rope in a housing cavity;
• an engaging device mounted at an outwardly directed end of said tubularly-shaped housing for engaging said tubularly-shaped housing to said canister at said hole and thereby at least partially supporting said bung-plug assembly from said canister;
• wherein said engaging device comprises:
• a grommet cap having a grommet-cap bore therethrough, said grommet cap being attached to said tubularly-shaped housing;
• a bulkhead adapter including a tube portion having male threads therealong at an outer end and a radially-outwardly extending flange portion at an inner end, said tube portion extending through the grommet bore with the flange portion abutting on a surface of the grommet cap facing the housing cavity;
• a separate bulkhead-adapter nut having female threads for engaging the male threads at the outer end of said tube portion;
• said bung-plug assembly being mountable on said life-raft canister by extending said tube portion of said bulkhead adapter through an opening in a wall of life-raft canister and screwing said bulkhead-adapter nut onto said tube portion for clamping said wall of said life-raft canister between said bulkhead-adapter nut and said grommet cap.