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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 05-05-2024, 11:14
Replies: 12
Views: 731
Posted By Auklet
Re: Setting realist expectations for cruise planning

Thanks for sharing your plans for sailing. First of all, a slight correction. Sailing in the Salish Sea is not “blue water” sailing. That’s because that area which includes the San Juan Islands is a...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 05-05-2024, 08:17
Replies: 27
Views: 2,760
Posted By Auklet
Re: Reefing? Just for Safety?

Maybe so. But in short buoy races with strong wind the most “competitive” boats usually will not reef for the weather mark. The fact that they all did not reef for the start suggests the conditions...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 01-05-2024, 07:13
Replies: 27
Views: 2,760
Posted By Auklet
Re: Reefing? Just for Safety?

Humm. You don’t share your point of sail heading home with increasing wind. And whether or not you have crew. Sailing down wind in quartering seas of four ft or higher and of short period often puts...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 30-04-2024, 08:58
Replies: 158
Views: 17,351
Posted By Auklet
Re: How many anchors do you carry?

What do I know about one (CQR)? Once anchored three nights aboard a friend’s Island Packet 37 off Garden Key, Dry Tortugas. Nightly thunderstorms; wind gusts into the 30’s. We never lost ground but I...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 30-04-2024, 08:15
Replies: 158
Views: 17,351
Posted By Auklet
Re: How many anchors do you carry?

I would regard this as “expert” testimony on the performance of these two anchors. Effectively, no quantifiable difference in holding power and set durability for the conditions “tested.” Good...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 29-04-2024, 20:48
Replies: 158
Views: 17,351
Posted By Auklet
Re: How many anchors do you carry?

A controlled test using constant (unidirectional) pull from a machine or device to measure holding power, as I understand it. Not performance under actual conditions with all of those variables.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 29-04-2024, 20:36
Replies: 158
Views: 17,351
Posted By Auklet
Re: How many anchors do you carry?

As I said, static tests. Do we have hands-on “experts” or merely experts on the literature? Performance of each of my three anchors has not given me pause to go exploring to replace one that does not...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 29-04-2024, 19:59
Replies: 158
Views: 17,351
Posted By Auklet
Re: How many anchors do you carry?

It’s hard to imagine that most anchor discussion is based on users experience with different anchors of various sizes on a range of bottom types, etc. Has anyone really dragged lately? How do we...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 27-04-2024, 20:21
Replies: 100
Views: 10,065
Posted By Auklet
Re: What's your anchoring etiquette

I think this is a commonly mis-understood transposition. It’s not the “first boat there”, it’s the “boat that’s there first” relative to your arrival. Don’t be silly. Of course hardly anyone is going...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 15-01-2024, 07:35
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

From some of the arguments here one might ask why have any day shapes at all? I’ve spent a total of a few months on oceanographic research vessels engaged in “over-the-side” operations, principally...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 14-01-2024, 07:40
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

Yeah, well I think we are getting a pretty good view of that line of thinking playing out on the streets of our major US cities and along the border(s). There are many ways that societal order could...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 14-01-2024, 06:21
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

Well, there’s also, potentially, ignorance of the rule, indifference to follow the rule, and “silent protest” of the rule if seen as unnecessary or irrelevant in one’s own situation. Ergo, “I only...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 05-01-2024, 09:50
Replies: 34
Views: 3,638
Posted By Auklet
Re: How long is a survey valid?

Surveys I've seen range from producing "useful information" to "critically important" information, depending. Some can be quite lengthy. Surveyors have commercial customers too for whom, I suppose,...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 05-01-2024, 08:35
Replies: 34
Views: 3,638
Posted By Auklet
Re: How long is a survey valid?

I would not dispute the personal experiences of those who, as a third party and not a principal, have successfully used prior surveys to qualify for insurance coverage on a newly-purchased boat....
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 02-01-2024, 12:01
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

...with circumspection now, it might not be > 12m LOA.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 02-01-2024, 11:30
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

I suppose that if I were approaching the pictured vessel sailing close-hauled on the starboard tack and knew its status as an anchored vessel that lay across my course, I would naturally attempt to...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 01-01-2024, 09:22
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

You are correct. Allision is what would have occurred.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 01-01-2024, 07:56
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

Sir,

The question for which I'm seeking an answer is does a skipper have a personal responsibility to convey his status on-the-water to other boaters according to the rules or not? Might there be...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 01-01-2024, 07:18
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

No. Accidental collision. COLREGS require that the vessel with the last opportunity to avoid collision must stay clear. In the scenario, the skipper sailing is attempting (too late) to stay clear,...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 01-01-2024, 06:20
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

Sir,
Yours is an absurd response here. Do you even know where the anchorage is that you picture? Is it shoreward of a COLREGS demarcation line? Given the channel leading in I would think so; anchor...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 31-12-2023, 18:00
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

I read “when at anchor.” Yes, if no anchor then I would never be at anchor, etc.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 31-12-2023, 17:56
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

There’re some pretty odd posts in this thread. Really, displaying the proper day shape when at anchor is one’s own personal responsibility to the other boaters, if nothing else. It’s not all about...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 31-12-2023, 17:03
Replies: 287
Views: 24,446
Posted By Auklet
Re: Anchor Balls

I don’t recall a regulation requiring a recreational vessel to carry an anchor. If not required to carry an anchor, then of course there should be no requirement for an anchor ball.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 31-12-2023, 15:47
Replies: 34
Views: 3,638
Posted By Auklet
Re: How long is a survey valid?

OK. Here's something I might know. From the view of the surveyor, the written survey is for the exclusive use of the customer who commissioned it. It's functionally a copyrighted piece of work,...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 31-12-2023, 15:00
Replies: 16
Views: 1,816
Posted By Auklet
Re: "Coastal waters"

The oceanographic demarcation between littoral (coastal) and oceanic ("offshore") waters is at the position of the shelf break; i.e., where the continental shelf ends and the slope begins. It varies...
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