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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default Dragon Lady, Ruff Times and High Times

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:37:46 -0400, "Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

Backing smartly away from the dock on a favorable wind, we
promptly wrapped the painter in the prop. Oops.


Many people make up painters too short to reach the prop.

A bit of forward rotation bumps on the prop to unwrap it,


If foreward unwraps it, then you caught it while backing. Good trick
fouling it, I didn't know you could do it that way.

Casady