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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 11:18:31 EDT
I have only limited offshore experience compared to Bob, so take my
stories with a grain of salt. (One 2 year cruise Canada to Mexico)
Knotmaster: Appears to be plenty accurate for our work, especially given
that it is backed up / checked via GPS and coastwise plots. I have never
lost a fish, but I did lose one fin out of a fish once. (There are four
fins on the fish.) I made a perfect replacement out of some thin aluminum
stock on hand and it works fine. There is no curvature to the fins so it
is easy to replace one.
I have picked up plenty of kelp. I try to glance back at the thing and
eyeball whether I think it's spinning at a rate consistent with the rate
at which water is slipping by. If not, heave it in and check for weed.
I have fouled plenty of fishing lines! Trolling off the starboard quarter
with the log off the port quarter they will foul. Now we just heave the
log in and do without while fishing. Annoying though - I haven't given up
on resolving that one.
Sea Anchors: One attempt to use one, in 40 knots w/ 18 foot seas off the
Oregon coast. I was unable to get our Columbia 36 to lie either head or
stern to the seas with the sea anchor. She would lie in the trough no
matter what I did. I tried a storm jib forward with the anchor aft, I
tried a storm jib on the backstay with the anchor forward. Nothin'. This
was our first offshore gale so maybe we didn't know enough about how to do
it. But what we ended up with worked so well, that in fact I don't even
have a S A any more. We were far more successful streaming warps and
running down with a storm jib. Streamed warps in a bight from the two
stern cleats. As the gale abated was able to "throttle" the drag so
produced, simply by moving one end of the bight such that it all came from
the same one stern cleat. This causes the bight to close and greatly
reduces the drag. Another key was to position the length of the bight at
the right distance back (depends on the wave length) so that the drag
force peaked right when the bow was trying to dig in and broach the yacht.
Just my two cents.
Chris McKesson
s/v SUNDANCE
currently: at anchor in Port Ludlow WA
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