Lee Haefele wrote: >I have a friend at Cayuga Lake whose Albin 27 Trawler broke free and is >now stuck near shore, bow in. This boat has a full keel, enclosing the prop. A towboat with twin 150 O/B came and could not budge it. They are returning with a 60' workboat today. They intend to tow it out backwards using a sling around the entire boat.
SFWIW: Carried two (2), 100 ft hanks, 3-strand nylon and a 4" single block. One hank was to form a bridle around the boat and secured to the mast, to be used by the tow boat. 2nd hank to be reeved thru 4" block that was secured to main halyard and pulled to top of mast. One end to be secured to 2nd tow boat tow line, the other to the deck. Purpose is to pull boat over as far as necessary to float boat so boat can be pulled free when boat floats. Once used above 1/2 line along with a 22 Lb Danforth and 20 ft of chain that was dinghied out to gain some scope, then winched the boat over far enough to float free. Yes, it was a single handed operation. HTH Lew _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
