I've thought about something like this but been concerned about the
potential for singing and damage. I've sometimes seen a vortex coming off
the keel with enough energy that the water has cavitated, boiled into steam
at seawater temperature due to the low pressure. The prospect of rope or
wire, and metal fittings screwed into the fiberglass standing up to this
much energy doesn't seem like a good bet to me. Grounding could put
enormous strain on the cable, one end of which is attached to the rudder.
If a pot warp ever did get around it, it would be an incredible snafu.

I've found this method for disentangling to work very well the two times I
have resorted to it, and those were without practice. No swimming or
cutting involved. You should have this equipment handy and always try this
first. Even if it doesn't work, it will set you up for safer and easier
attacks by other means.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Pots.htm

Now that I've done this a couple times, I expect to be able to get
disconnected with not much more time or trouble than stowing the main.

All three times I've fouled, it's been pots that were twisted around
themselves and not lying naturally. I now watch for pots unusually close
together or which look like their warps are unusually tight.

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Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I've thought about something like this but been concerned about the
potential for singing and damage. I've sometimes seen a vortex coming off
the keel with enough energy that the water has cavitated, boiled into
steam at seawater temperature due to the low pressure. The prospect of
rope or wire, and metal fittings screwed into the fiberglass standing up
to this much energy doesn't seem like a good bet to me. Grounding could
put enormous strain on the cable, one end of which is attached to the
rudder. If a pot warp ever did get around it, it would be an incredible
snafu.

I've found this method for disentangling to work very well the two times I
have resorted to it, and those were without practice. No swimming or
cutting involved. You should have this equipment handy and always try
this first. Even if it doesn't work, it will set you up for safer and
easier attacks by other means.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Pots.htm

Now that I've done this a couple times, I expect to be able to get
disconnected with not much more time or trouble than stowing the main.

All three times I've fouled, it's been pots that were twisted around
themselves and not lying naturally. I now watch for pots unusually close
together or which look like their warps are unusually tight.

--
Roger Long


Where did you get the knife portion?


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Capt. JG wrote but didn't bother to erase the copy of everything I
originally wrote so I almost missed his question way, way, down at the
bottom:


Where did you get the knife portion?

The link is on the web page but here it is repeated:

http://captnhooksolutions.com/

Nice unit. Looks like it would be good for repelling borders as well. I
haven't used it for pot warps yet since my other method works so well but it
did a great job of pulling a bunch of weed off the prop that dropped my
speed to 3 knots. I did this from the dock but it still would have been
hard with any other tool I can think of.

The situation I wane to have the knife on board for is snagging a pot close
to a lee shore or obstruction where I need to get the boat sailing and under
control within seconds of clearing it. Even after clearing a pot warp, I
don't like to start the engine until I've turned it a few times in both
forward and reverse with the throttle closed so it can't start. All the
pots I've snagged have been fouled with others so there could always be a
second still around the shaft waiting to be wound into an unpenetratable
blob by the spinning prop.

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Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
Capt. JG wrote but didn't bother to erase the copy of everything I
originally wrote so I almost missed his question way, way, down at the
bottom:


Where did you get the knife portion?

The link is on the web page but here it is repeated:

http://captnhooksolutions.com/

Nice unit. Looks like it would be good for repelling borders as well. I
haven't used it for pot warps yet since my other method works so well but
it did a great job of pulling a bunch of weed off the prop that dropped my
speed to 3 knots. I did this from the dock but it still would have been
hard with any other tool I can think of.

The situation I wane to have the knife on board for is snagging a pot
close to a lee shore or obstruction where I need to get the boat sailing
and under control within seconds of clearing it. Even after clearing a
pot warp, I don't like to start the engine until I've turned it a few
times in both forward and reverse with the throttle closed so it can't
start. All the pots I've snagged have been fouled with others so there
could always be a second still around the shaft waiting to be wound into
an unpenetratable blob by the spinning prop.

--
Roger Long


Ah... missed it... thanks!

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