"Roger Long" wrote in message
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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.


There's also the issue of how long it takes to deploy and if that's a
distraction. Offshore, in bad conditions, it's probably worth having.

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