NE Sailboat wrote:

I don't want to read "boat caught in reversing falls" in the Portland
Press.

I've been through hairer place than that:

http://home.maine.rr.com/bmssez/06C8.htm

and not to mention many passages through the infamous Woods Hole, my old
front yard. I remember getting into the channel just as a tug and barge
coming down current the other way hit some eddy and the barge swung out to
one side taking up most of the channel. I eased over into a cove in the
rocks and let the main out so that the speed dropped to just match the
current. We held position over the ground, still making impressive speed
through the water, with the rocks close ahead, astern, and along side. The
tug boat swept by gunning it's engines and blowing clouds of black smoke
attempting to get the barge back in line as I juggled sail trim and rudder.
The beautiful woman who was with me said, "I am very impressed." A year or
two later though, she married the tugboat captain, evidence perhaps that
size (of boats) does matter. I've always felt that it isn't what you have
but what you do with it and how that matters but it didn't do the trick this
time.

Free mooring in Nantucket eh? Clearly you are pleasanter to some people
than many of your posts here would indicate.

--
Roger Long