thrity years ago people *claimed* that driving drunk was a god given right.
To
this day people claim that driving a boat drunk is a god given right.

How about typing under the influence?
Is that a god-given right as well?

JAXAshby wrote:
it is part of the US Mil Spec.

For a good reason.

Umm, hey Jax, hate to bother you with a trivial detail, but can you cite
that Mil-Spec?

DSK

Umm, hey Jax, hate to bother you with a trivial detail, but can you cite
that Mil-Spec?

DSK

dougie, I am not going to once again tell you how to tie your shoes. It is
easier to find than it is for a healthy man to lift a 0.5# anchor.

argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gould you can NOT possibly be THAT stupid.

Can you?

now, chain the pickup out for a boat, and think again.

compare the drive efficiency of tires on pavement with a prop in the water
and
then think again.

Compare the friction between the vehicle and the road vs. a vessel and the
water, and then think again.

Compare the function of an achor, (to hold a vessel in place when not
underway)
to your example of applying extreme amounts of throttle.

Then, think again.

Umm, hey Jax, hate to bother you with a trivial detail, but can you cite
that Mil-Spec?


JAXAshby wrote:
dougie, I am not going to once again tell you how to tie your shoes. It is
easier to find than it is for a healthy man to lift a 0.5# anchor.

In other words, you made it up.

DSK

In other words, you made it up.

DSK

not in the slightest.

a.) the chain will run through their hoists, and

ditto most windlasses

dodo, ships are ships while sailboats are sailboat. comparing the two is like
comparing chrome and glass skyscrapers to single car garages.

now, *IF* you really want us to believe you can't tell the difference between a
ship and sailboat just tell us you are too drunk to know the difference.
otherwise, keep to the discussion.

b.) they never weather a storm at anchor.

most recreational boaters don't either.... and if they did, hopefully
they would have sense enough to put a snubber on each anchor line.

a "storm" strong enough to jerk and all chain rode loose from the bottom on a
for an anchored recreational sailboat is not even 20 knots of wind and 3 foot
waves.

but thanks for enlightening us, for you have told us *you* are always tied to
the dock at the end of the day, so you buy 300# of chain just so you can brag
about buying 300# of chain to weight down the bow of you boat.

gene tells us *he* thinks lifting a 35# anchor is too much for him physically
and therefore he is happy to endanger the lives of others by his reckless use
of all chain rode in windy wavey conditions.

way to go genne.

boy, a bunch of worthless sailors you guys are. such short sticks you are
reduced to claiming that *your* boats ARE JUST LIKE steel freighters
hundreds
of feet long, burning bunker oil, fully manned 24/7/365 with several
millions
of dollars of electronics, always ready to set to sea at the first sign of
bad
weather approaching.

admit it, dude/ettes, you require an all chain rode on your boats because
you
are too weak to lift a 35# anchor and electric windlasses don't work so well
with nylon.

geesh, putting yourself and your boat in danger just because you are a bunch
of
old farts too weak to sail anymore.


Helluva statement from a guy that posted this a little over a year
ago:

http://tinyurl.com/2a96z


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In other words, you made it up.


JAXAshby wrote:
not in the slightest.

Well, let's see it then. Put up or shut up.

It just so happens that I have ready access to a library of Mil-Specs.
There are many that pertain to anchor chain, but they are all concerned
with coatings & strength and such.

Wouldn't you like to prove me wrong once, Jax, instead of the other way
around? Go ahead, just post the number of that spec.... if it exists...

DSK