I just looked a nice MOB pole for about enough money to buy an
outboard motor for the dinghy. Sure, for the Transpac and trying to
find someone in 15 foot seas after spending 20 minutes getting the
spinnaker down, that would be the bees knees.

For the kind of conditions likely to be found along the coast in
Maine, what would be wrong with a $40 mooring pick up flag on a
fiberglass pole and a line to the horseshoe life ring? Hamilton sells
ones for fishermen to put on their gill nets that are even higher and
not a lot more expensive.

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Roger Long