Re #9
Excellent stuff - thank you :-)! Much to be learned from
men who didn't have fancy doodads to keep their butts safe :-)!
At five tons TP is but a toy ship, and our bower is a Bruce, an
anchor it seems to have become fashionable to disparage, and the "kedge", if I may call it that, is a
Fortress, which I have a hard time coming to respect. I carry a very big, very heavy shackle that I can set around the
rode. It will slip over the shank of both anchors [one at a time, of course :-)] as it goes down, and a line on the shackle becomes a trip-line when the shackle reaches the flukes. In theory :-)
Should
work, but on the one occasion when I needed it, I couldn't trip the hook. Laboured away at it by "nodding" TP and using a sheet
winch till the chain appeared, thence a "devils claw" on a whip. The problem turned out to be a sunken
mooring can we had "circumnavigated" in the night so our chain was nicely wrapped around its chain.
From there on the solution was easy enuff: Sling the "sunken" can and the Bruce from TP's
mooring cleat that passes for a
samson post, cut the
rope rode, unravel the two chains bringing TP's on
deck together with the hook, let go the can, get under way, re-splice the
rope to the chain.
Probably needed a new nip anyway :-)
TP