[Rhodes22-list] Kedging

[brad haslett]

Bill,

As we were passing the time whilst freezing our arses
off Friday night, we dug through the ships library for
ideas and that one was discussed.  One problem; we
didn't have the dink with us.  I tried throwing the
anchor over the side the next morning but couldn't get
the distance required for the leverage needed.  When
my friend showed up we started with brute force and
were "that close" several times.  Knowing what I know
now, I'll go for the kedging first thing, AND, I'm
taking the dink with me on our Spring trip in a few
weeks.

Brad
--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> The technique is called "kedging" and can be
> performed with a dinghy and 
> an anchor.  It works better with an anchor built for
> kedging because the 
> pull on the anchor line is in a direction that is
> designed to release 
> most of the anchors we tend to carry.
> 
> Bill
> 
> brad haslett wrote:
> 
> >The wind on Friday was awesome!  15-20 mph with
> gusts
> >to 30.  I had the CoraShen indicating 9 knots when
> the
> >max hull speed is supposed to be about 7.5.  My
> older
> >brother was on his first sail and was as excited as
> a
> >little kid.  We came up on a part of the river I'm
> >pretty familiar with and decided to swing wide
> rather
> >than tack because we were going fast and having too
> >much fun.  THEN, I made the shortest landing in my
> >career.  We went from 9 knots to 0 knots in about
> 10
> >feet.  It wasn't a jolt, we just quit moving. 
> About
> >two seconds later the depth alarm went off, real
> good
> >timing.  What we had after that was a sailing
> >simulator.  You could do anything you wanted with
> the
> >sails, engine, etc. because the boat wasn't going
> >anywhere.  As the sun started down we lost the wind
> >and the will to solve our prediciment.  I made some
> >calls on both the radio and cell-phone but couldn't
> >raise anyone for help.  So, we spent the night on
> the
> >boat.  It got down to the low 40's and I didn't
> find
> >the blanket I knew was on the boat until the next
> >morning.  Anyway, I was able to get ahold of a
> friend
> >of mine that lives on the lake Saturday morning and
> he
> >showed up with his pontoon boat with a 115hp
> engine. 
> >We towed the bow, the stern, clockwise,
> >counter-clockwise, but didn't move the boat.  We
> were
> >only 5 feet from deep water but couldn't get there.
> 
> >Finally we tied the halyard to the side rail and
> >started towing from the top of the mast.  After the
> >boat was heeled about 45 degrees it started
> floating
> >and we drug it sideways to deeper water.  Hopefully
> >this will be my only grounding for the season but
> if
> >it happens again, I'll pull that solution out of
> the
> >trick-bag first.  By 11 am Saturday we were free
> and
> >sailed back to the dock.  I was so tired from the
> >experience I didn't feel like doing any work on the
> >boat.  Oh well, that's a good excuse to go back to
> the
> >lake later in the week.
> >
> >Brad Haslett
> >"CoraShen"
> >
> >
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