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Gene Kearns wrote:
On 28 Sep 2004 00:38:15 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote: You are trying to say that on LIS all chain rode anchors drag, but they also rip out deck cleats..... how can it do both? I don't know that LIS is known for whopper waves, which pretty much lowers your argument to improper scope, which you alluded to in a previous post... only to ignore your own words, since they disprove your position. My parents had a tiny summer cottage adjacent to Long Island Sound for more than 20 years, and I spent ALL of my summers while growing up in Connecticut, from June through Labor Day, there. During hurricanes, we'd get some interesting wind-generated waves, biggies, but not the monsters you see during the same storms on the Atlantic. We'd get a big storm surge, too. But most of the time, the Sound was pretty calm, or a little choppy. Nothing that I couldn't handle in the small boats my father gave me for summer use. And I mean small. There are some parts of the Connecticut side of the Sound where the shorelines are rocky and the rocks extend out some distance into the water. During extra low tides, we'd always see underwater structure revealed that we never knew was there. Then, as now, most boaters got along with a Danforth anchor, a short length of chain and...get this...manilla rodes. Yep...real rope, as God intended. I had a mooring out in the little cove in front of where we lived. It was a 100-pound mushroom in 20' of water attached to 80' 0f chain attached to a stainless steel beer barrel. We yanked the mooring at the end of each season, and back at my dad's shop, I'd clean off the chain and in the spring, recoat it with copper anti-foul. We used the SAME mooring for at least 20 years and even in hurricanes, it never dragged. Did I say it was all chain? -- We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah. What, me worry? |
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