On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:56:52 -0700, you wrote: >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. > In the ICW we once saw a guy in a trawler who was throwing out his anchor and then pulling the boat up to it over and over. We asked him if we could help and he said No. I don't know - maybe it was some kind of workout that he wanted to do or something.
>Yes, it was a single handed operation. > >HTH > >Lew We've done this too but it was a two person operation. This was on one of our first trips on our boat in 2000 sailing around the Chesapeake There was a one to two foot chop with white caps. We motored into the wind, which did not abate much when we entered the Chester River. Because we'd been in Baltimore and anchored out, we were out of food and Bob wanted to go to a real grocery store for groceries. We decided to anchor north of the entrance inside Queenstown Creek and dingy in to Queenstown. The charts said the inlet was 6 ft. with local knowledge. We had directions from 2 guidebooks, so we tried. Three times we approached and 3 times it shallowed up to 4.5 ft. and we went aground. (we draw 4'11") Later we talked to other sailors and they said they'd done the inlet recently, and they only draw 2" less than we do. I think Bob was giving the markers too much leeway. As Bob turned away to give it up as a bad job, the wind (still 19-20 knots) blew us down onto a shoal sideways and we were aground for the 4th time. We couldn't power out forward or backward or combinations with us on the bow or stern. We tried unfurling the main to make her heel, which she did, and we went to the low side to make her heel more. We got off briefly, only to be blown back. I called for a tow or for someone in Queenstown on the radio but no one answered. I found a # of a tow boat on the north side of Kent Narrows and called with the cell phone, but got a recording that the # was disconnected. The engine was overheating from running full tilt. What really annoyed me about this was not only did no one respond on the radio (and the previous day a guy had the same problem getting a tow) but a sailboat actually came out of the inlet, passing within about 10 feet of us and totally ignored the fact that we were obviously in trouble - did not wave or even make eye contact. I was so surprised I didn't hail them. Bob decided to try kedging off. He got the dink out and put the motor on, and put the 50 lb anchor in it. I fed 100 feet of chain down to him. After he gained control of the dink which tried to come back and ram the mother ship and after getting the chain arranged so that it wouldn't pull him overboard with it (He skinned his shin in the process), he carefully laid the chain out to the windward. When he got to the end he heaved the anchor over, fortunately without going over with it. He came back and tied the dink to the lee side of the boat, and started winching in the chain while I, at the helm, attempted to push the boat toward the anchor with the engine.. At first (for the first 50 ft. of chain) it did not seem to be working. Then we were free, and I motored carefully but firmly into the wind. Bob stowed the anchor (no need to wash it, everything blew off before it got on deck, plus it was more sand than mud), and then went to get the dink to a more appropriate place. Suddenly, I heard him yell "We've lost the dink" and I looked up and saw him with both ends of the rope (one end with a knot in it) in his hand as he was leaping toward the stern. I threw the boat into reverse, and unbeknownst to me (because I was paying close attention to the depth gauge in front of me), he leaped from the transom down into the dink as it was floating by, wrenching his leg, but only getting one sock and shoe wet in the process. I heard him say "We've got the dink", so I stopped reversing. He did not know I had put the boat into reverse until afterwards. Probably would have given him a heart attack if he had known. After we secured the dink, we motored up and anchored in the Corsica River. We anchored off the country house owned by the Russian embassy (with several 'Private Property' signs on the beach) in the Corsica by 3:30, after 21.2 nm at an average speed of 3.6 knots. Of course that includes the going aground time. We dined on melon, salad, grapefruit and hot dogs sans mustard as we had no regular veggies. The next day we went to Chestertown. Bob didn't want to go to the gourmet grocery (now Joy's) or the Natural Foods store because he felt that the prices were way out of line, and he refused to pay for the convenience and the upscale location.So Bob determine to walk to the shopping center - probably a mile or a mile and a half away. On the way, he went around Washington College, and he found what he says must be the last Rose's in existence. There he bought a bag (like a carry-on bag) to bring back the groceries. It took him about an hour and a half to walk up, shop at the Acme and walk back. (He said the folks at the Acme thought he was crazy.) _______________________________________________ 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
