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Misty Blue · 02-19-2006, 05:30 AM

At sea I read the entire Hornblower (by C.S. Forester) series over and over. The guys had to take me down to the bilge for a little bit of "deprograming".

Any way, Horatio used a trick when anchoring in a storm. He tied a gun barrel to the anchor rhode some distanse from the anchor to keep the line draging the bottom for a better anchr grip.

To demonstrate how this works take a piece of velcro and pull the fuzzy side UP from the rough side. It pulls out. Now try pulling not UP but sideways. Wow! That is what makes a plow or a danforth work!

New Question: As we all know a sailboat has the "right of way" (I hate that term) over a power boat. But when two sailboats are aproaching each other with a risk of collision who is the "stand on" vessel?

02-19-2006, 05:30 AM	#26
Misty Blue Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 658 Thanks: 121 Thanked 283 Times in 98 Posts	Righty-Oh Camp Guy! At sea I read the entire Hornblower (by C.S. Forester) series over and over. The guys had to take me down to the bilge for a little bit of "deprograming". Any way, Horatio used a trick when anchoring in a storm. He tied a gun barrel to the anchor rhode some distanse from the anchor to keep the line draging the bottom for a better anchr grip. To demonstrate how this works take a piece of velcro and pull the fuzzy side UP from the rough side. It pulls out. Now try pulling not UP but sideways. Wow! That is what makes a plow or a danforth work! New Question: As we all know a sailboat has the "right of way" (I hate that term) over a power boat. But when two sailboats are aproaching each other with a risk of collision who is the "stand on" vessel?