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Post by bigbill on Oct 17, 2022 18:05:59 GMT -5
just a heads up to check your shackles and safety wires on your anchors. we spent the night at cat island a couple of weeks ago in pretty rough conditions. when i was washing the boat i saw the safety wire hanging loose, checked the shackle and it was 3/4 of a turn loose. i almost lost an anchor and possibly washed up on the island
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Oct 17, 2022 18:19:10 GMT -5
Use that Bahamian Moor Bill! I remember the first night above Mobile with the HATTRICK, it was windier than heck so I slept in the pilot seat. The canal we were on wasnt any more than 70 feet wide. In the morning, I woke up and we were facing the opposite direction! The pin that held the stock to the blades on the Danforth rusted away and the anchor parted. I pulled the chain up witha 30 lb. bar of steel (the stock) and lost the flukes. We had a stern anchor as well and that held us from washing out into the open river.
Did you set an anchor alarm? Put an annunciator in the stateroom too! ws
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Post by bigbill on Oct 18, 2022 17:42:53 GMT -5
i did have an anchor alarmset BUT that would not have mattered, we brought all 4 of our dogs and they took over the bed with my wife so i slept in the v berth, i doubt my wife would have woke up if an alarm went off
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Oct 19, 2022 2:46:05 GMT -5
Those Bostons due tend to take over dont they?
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Post by bigbill on Oct 19, 2022 12:27:06 GMT -5
not so much the 3 bostons but the rescue black lab...he takes up a lot of room
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Oct 19, 2022 14:30:14 GMT -5
AH HA!! So yer a race trader now LOL?  Pics of the clan? ws |
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Pics of the clan? ws