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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default Benefits of Shoal Draft

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:19:56 -0600, Paul Cassel
wrote:

wrote:


Over in the
Pacific, as Edgar posted about the Baltic, the issue is more finding a
place where you have enough rode to anchor. Several times I anchored
with a rode maybe 1.5x the depth but so much was out, that it sufficed.


Many Pacific boats have 2000 feet or so of wire on a winch.

Casady