hoary, the beer keg **********IN USE********* was a
------------------------------------------- serious
---------------------------------------------- buffer.

I know that may be a tad hard for someone like you to understand, what with
your utter lack of knowledge in physics and math, as you fully agreed was true
in your extremely poor showing of just 625 on your math SAT, but just sit there
and be quiet.

The beer keg was one serious buffer, trust me on this one, hoary.

hoary, it wasn't all chain. that beer keg was a *serious* buffer.

Harry Krause
Date: 9/28/2004 9:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 28 Sep 2004 00:38:15 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

You are trying to say that on LIS all chain rode anchors drag, but
they also rip out deck cleats..... how can it do both? I don't know
that LIS is known for whopper waves, which pretty much lowers your
argument to improper scope, which you alluded to in a previous post...
only to ignore your own words, since they disprove your position.


My parents had a tiny summer cottage adjacent to Long Island Sound for
more than 20 years, and I spent ALL of my summers while growing up in
Connecticut, from June through Labor Day, there.

During hurricanes, we'd get some interesting wind-generated waves,
biggies, but not the monsters you see during the same storms on the
Atlantic. We'd get a big storm surge, too. But most of the time, the
Sound was pretty calm, or a little choppy. Nothing that I couldn't
handle in the small boats my father gave me for summer use. And I mean
small.

There are some parts of the Connecticut side of the Sound where the
shorelines are rocky and the rocks extend out some distance into the
water. During extra low tides, we'd always see underwater structure
revealed that we never knew was there.

Then, as now, most boaters got along with a Danforth anchor, a short
length of chain and...get this...manilla rodes. Yep...real rope, as God
intended.

I had a mooring out in the little cove in front of where we lived. It
was a 100-pound mushroom in 20' of water attached to 80' 0f chain
attached to a stainless steel beer barrel. We yanked the mooring at the
end of each season, and back at my dad's shop, I'd clean off the chain
and in the spring, recoat it with copper anti-foul. We used the SAME
mooring for at least 20 years and even in hurricanes, it never dragged.
Did I say it was all chain?



Nope. My dad welded a heavy stainless steel rod through the keg, and
then welded a stainless eye to each end of the rod. The only purpose of
the keg was to float the chain and provide a place for me to snap a rope
from the bow eye to the buoy. If there were enough eave action, wind or
current, the chain would extend out. As the chain was connected to the
bottom of the buoy via a rod that went through the top, it became, for
all intents and purposes, part of the chain.

Oh...stop top posting.




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We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?