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What size/kind of warps were used ?
Thank you.
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Just my two cents.
>
> Chris McKesson
> s/v SUNDANCE
> currently: at anchor in Port Ludlow WA
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