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Hey! Good to see you started (slow poke;-)) Some of us liveaboards never
stop! You don't really feel alive until you have to work with a table saw
outside in -10c weather with it snowing!!!
Pierre.
6 days until haul out (yes, out of the water)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry DeMers" <>
To: "Bob Johnson" <>
Cc: <>; <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: anchor rode?
> 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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