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From: Larry DeMers (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 09:59:21 EDT
Bob,
We went to the boat this past weekend.. here is an example of perseverence "for
the sport"!
Left on Saturday, 8 am in drizzle and lite rain. Within 1 mile we were in a
horizontal blizzard, with 100 ft. visiblitiy. This lasted for 2 of the 3 1/2 hr.
drive north, which was extended to 4 1/2 hrs. due to the weather. Arrived at the
marina, only to find snowbanks 5-9 ft. tall, the lake still comletely frozen..with
trucks and snowmobiles zipping around on the ice road to Madelline Island.
The car ferry's are all frozen in place from the fall yet. Worse, the owner of the
marina looks at us for a moment and says, "you gotta be kidding!" heh..no, we are
actually 3 weeks late coming up this year. "How many feet of extension cord do you
have?" He asks, thinking that we did not come prepared..250ft. I reply. "Oh" says
he..that should do it.
So we parked the car loaded with our gear inside the car, and the extension ladder
and 4 new cushions that we made wrapped in plastic up on the car top carrier. Now
began a 300 ft. walk through knee deep snow on the flats..well, Jan thought this
undoable, so she grabbed our snowshovel and started clearing a pathway to the boat
for us to use..probably for the next month. I went in search of electrons to supply
our 250 ft. of extension cords with..unfortunately, it was 255 ft. away. literally.
So, I moved things around a bit, dragged out the boats umbilical cord and adapters
and we had power, albeit at only 110v due to losses in the cable, and the heater
will not run long at 1500Watts along with the charger that was trying to replenish
the lost Ah's from the winter storage. So we lit off our wood burning fireplace, and
turned the heater down to 850W, and all was well.
We first got there at 1pm, and by 5pm we had; moved all gear from the car into
the boat, dried the boat off inside from the rain and snow that we tracked in (it
was pouring out all morning long!) determined that the new cushions were wonderful
to sit on and truly interesting to look at, that the boat was in grand shape (ie: No
Mildew), and that the world is right side up afterall. We had a stuffed turkey
breast cooking in the oven, a little Winston Marsalis playing in the background, and
a good book in our hands to read.
Our summer has begun. The stocking cap and Sorrel boots? Merely a temporary
affectation that hopefully will be lost with the warm weather coming...;^) If it
does not come this year? Hey, we got that long extension cord and we
could..........etc.
Cheers!~
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30 ~~~Now back on Lake Superior~~~
Bob Johnson wrote:
> This was a new piece. Larry DeMers responded that it is low stretch and thus
> not suitable for anchor rode. I guess I could string it up the side of the
> driveway next winter so that I could pull myself out. Sigh, snow banks still
> 5-6' high with no bare ground in sight.
> Bob Johnson
> Searunner 37 Hallelujah!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:]On Behalf Of
>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:09 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: lv-ab: anchor rode?
>
> I don't know that I'd put my vessel at peril by using an anchor rode with
> an unknown history. It is my understanding that any line that has been
> subject to harsh jerking stress could be beyond it's useful life and break
> at less that it's rated strength because of previous abuses.
> What do the people who live on the hook have to say?
> Geoff Craigen
>
> At 04:32 PM 02/04/2001 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> > Recently got a deal at a local salvage store and now I'm trying to put it
> >to use. This is a 5/8" braided line that had an original use (according to
> >the spool end) as a tow cable for gliders.
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