see, junnie, once again you tell us an anchor is REQUIRED to drag, or else
something breaks.

the sorry thing is, junnie, your claim that dragging anchor is required. it
isn't, *if* you anchor properly, and all chain ain't proper in wind and waves.

"Gene Kearns"
Date: 9/28/2004 2:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

On 28 Sep 2004 16:11:23 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

some people are having a tough time with the meaning of the word catenary,
and
are thus leaving themselves open to serious damage to their boats when
anchoring.

http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/math/catenary.htm gives a rudimentary
explaination
of catenaires and the forces thereupon. take notice of the next to last
paragraph.


No duh, genius. I posted this same link about 5 times while you
spouted on about your narrow and incomplete understanding of
catenaries AS THEY RELATE TO ANCHORING.

Not the least of which....

"This equation is integrated as shown in the Figure to find y'(x), and
again to find y(x), using the conditions that y = y' = 0 at x = 0."

and your

immovable anchor conundrum....

all of which make this argument specious.

Yet another example of:

"Sit up and Beg."


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