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• Photoday; Fall in the harbor.
  • A swordfishing boat.
    • Lobstermen are out straight right now.
      • Sailboats pulling at their moorings.
      • what are the reasons for the high catch in October?
        • Lobsters are most active late summer and early fall.
          • in Southern New England
            • True on their clout. I think the lobster may be sustainable though.
              • Hard to imagine its sustainable, with pots set every 50 ft in some areas.
                • Think of it more as "farming"...
                  • Exactly. The only irony of this "farming" may turn out to be,...
                • Read "The Secret Life of Lobsters" by Trevor Corson
  • Dawn in the Harbour
  • Failed Pendant Due To Ancors Not Stowed..
    • So, Did the other one hold?
      • Yes it held..
        • Good photo lesson... thanks.
        • Tom, Great photos. I have always left
          • Quick question regarding "removing anchors..."
            • TefGel or grease on the shackle thread
            • The problem is not how to get the anchors off the bow
              • yes, that's the dilemma
                • On one boat
                  • CQR
                  • The new boat doesn't have a roller
                    • rollers
                • Seems to me an additional dilemma is then you have no anchor available.
                  • I'm not sure that ? is directed at me
                    • Oh no, Jerry. Just the concept at large of taking below the anchors.
                  • Mine is still connected to chain
              • I lash mine to the inner forestay.
              • I replaced a clevis pin at the bob-stay attachment with a shackle
    • Quite a set of photos. When and where was it?
    • wow!
    • Thanks for this valuable lesson.
    • If the anchors hadn't sliced through the pennants...
      • Bob-stay
    • And you just watched? Good illustration and it can happen even with an anchor fully in a roller. But reminds me..
      • No I..
        • You must have been waiting to go upriver
    • that is why I can't afford insurance
    • Nice post MaineSail. We had the anchor snag this summer.