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Wayne.B

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:24:16 -0400, wrote:

One other advantage of a kellet is that
if you anchor in some place like Duck Island Roads, (I'm sure you've been
there!) it will allow your boat to switch directions 180 degrees overnight
without the rode meeting the keel or rudder.

Yes, I have been there many times but not recently. There are many
other places with reversing current flow however. I'm mostly on all
chain these days so perhaps that is why I never have that particular
problem. I still think it's a mistake to rely on a kellet for reduced
scope. What hapens if you get a wind squall during the night and you
are on 3:1 scope with your kellet? We had to fend off a dragging boat
in the middle of the night at Block Island this summer. It ended up
OK after I was able to wake up the occupants but only because I was up
later than usual to see what was happening.