[C320-list] Single Handed Sailing

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The two pendants that hang from our mooring ball float, not just from the pickup stick but also because they’re encased with foam pipe insulation.
- Joe Jablonowski

> On Jan 21, 2022, at 12:39 PM, Christian <ccaper at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Grab the mooring pendant from the cockpit"
> 
> I'm glad this works for you.  Just be mindful that picking up the pendant
> from the cockpit does have the risk of getting the bridal or pendant lines
> caught in prop wash and sucked down to foul your prop.  Gave me quite a
> scare last season when this happened on getting off our mooring when on a
> light wind day the powerboat directly downwind of me and spun swing exactly
> opposite of our swing, right when we were disconnecting, and I had no where
> to go but forward (our mooring field is tight), and couldn't clear our
> mooring lines, and before I knew it was fouled on the pendant line, while
> no longer connected to our bridal/mooring.  Had to emergency drop anchor.
> And it took diving into the water and unhooking our bridal from our mooring
> ball to unfoul and free.  Really gave me quite the scare.  Fortunately, I
> was in very low RPM, and killed the engine immediately (but unfortunately
> already fouled), and no damage down to prop shaft.  But it could have been
> real bad.