[C320-list] Single Handed Sailing

[Christian]

Excellent idea on wrapping the lines with foam, I'll borrow that from you!

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:05 PM <appleton1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>