Sailing in the slip
- Thread starter Bepi
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Probably stuck, won't come down. One of the biggest issues in sailing, to which many are oblivious. Potential major issue coastwise or offshore.
Mark David
Member II
so this an extreme example, but when do you board someone else's boat to 'help'?
.....asking for a friend that docks next to a couple boats that don't secure clanking halyards
.....asking for a friend that docks next to a couple boats that don't secure clanking halyards
peaman
Contributing Partner
For myself, I would be very hesitant to board a boat for a clanking halyard unless it is owned by a "friend". As for sailing at the slip or other dynamic situations, I would watch for actual or likely damage to docks, hulls, or lines, and would try to address by adjusting or supplementing lines from the dock.
Bepi
E27 Roxanne
The area where I keep my vessel and the surrounding marinas are known locally as "Where boats go to die.". While taking the photograph several people walked by the vessel without even looking.
Alan Gomes
Sustaining Partner
If a strong Santa Ana condition blows up, that boat may take another boat or two with it to Valhalla.
Yeah. I have a yacht-designer friend, and I always cringe when one of his clients specifies an in-mast furling system for the main.
If something jams in the furling system there's no way the main can come down.
...likely at the exact moment you most urgently want it to come down.
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Or, being an older boat it still may have the original wire-to-rope halyard. The wire jumped the sheave and jammed. Why the owner left it that way is the puzzling part.
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