"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:02:16 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

A mooring field is an area where the moorings are so closely spaced, often
in a regular pattern, that anchoring between them would be impractical.
Often, they are so close that just navigating through the area is
difficult
and channels are often left for the purpose. Usually, a mooring field is
overseen and mooring locations managed by someone like me. There are
"unofficial" mooring fields where coves or harbors have simply filled up
with moorings.

Working definition: If you can find a place to set a hook in amongst the
moorings, it is not a mooring field. If you say, "Dang, we'll have to
jill
around while we send someone ashore in the dinghy for ice and beer and
then
go anchor around the point", it's a mooring field.


I'm pretty sure that they didn't have them things when I was sailing
down that a way. Used to be you could just find a nook and drop the
hook and take the dinghy to shore to find out where you were.

Sounds like it has all gone down hill since I left.

Heck, you could sail nearly anywhere in the state without even
catching a lobster pot.

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

Every yacht & boat club here always refers to the 'mooring field'.