Spring Blues...

[Rich (P303)]

I can't be the only one out there with this problem.Boat being new to me last year... I buffed her all out last summer before she got wet.Found some scrathes and boinks I did not know where there... but knew where every last one was. This spring I washed the boat... I found many scratches that were not there last year. Being on a mooring... no trips to any kind of dock... there is no way these were self inflicted.All I can figure is the working lobstermen in the area... when their traps get fouled on my keel,rudder or prop (after I leave for the weekend)... come by and bang the cr*p out of my boat to retrieve their gear.What say you?

 

[Warren Milberg]

I don't know your local waters,

but it's not uncommon for boats to get scratched up in and around the water line by debris floating in the water. Every now and then on the Chesapeake, we get a lot of large logs floating down the bay. I think Ross puts them in the water up where he is..... If they were to hit a boat on a mooring, it would cause some moderate to severe damage. Could be the same type of thing in your area?

 

[Ross]

Warren , I have seen some logs this spring that

make me wonder how they passed the flood gates at Conowingo. 30-40 feet long with roots and some tops. When they get trapped near my slip I encourage them to continue their journey.

 

[Jim]

That life

that is what I am saying.There is not use to sit around complaining.

 

[Jim]

Hey Ross, NO LOGS AT THE

Jersey Shore....

 

[Scott]

Nope ...

just hypodermic needles ... Jim, what exit are you?

 

[Ross]

Jim, No Logs! sorry. They probably get stuck in the underpasses

on the turnpike.

 

[Rich (P303)]

No needles or logs...

Naah...These are verticle scratches... like I tied up to a dock without fenders!Glad my boat isn't new... they will blend in with the other scratches I will get this year!I was on the mooring one night enjoying the last of the gin fumes when I herd this hideous scrape. It sounded like an ice pick, with about 50 pounds of pressure being dragged slowly across a fiberglass hull.I looked over and saw a lobstermen's working float tied to a mooring. You know... lobster traps piled all over the place. We are in a tidal area so the boats are pointing in all directions depending on wind and current. Well this older +/- 50' transient was tied to an adjacent mooring... and had one of those sterns that angled out over the water. The boat swung around and the stern went right across the tops of the steel lobster traps. Very pretty smile on the *ss end!

 

[Landsend]

Get on with you're life...

There are many things that you have no control over, so what good is it to worry about them? Be happy that you can own a boat and enjoy the positive. Or to put it another way: "S__T HAPPENS"

 

[Landsend]

Get on with you're life...

There are many things that you have no control over, so what good is it to worry about them? Be happy that you can own a boat and enjoy the positive. Or to put it another way: "S__T HAPPENS"

 

[Jim]

Hi Scott....

Everyone in Jersey lives by an exit on the Turnpike. This is how we greet each other, "what exit are you".We are off exit 4. The boat in the water tomarrow. The boat is off the Parkway exit 74 I think.Good joke Ross. Enjoy the bay this summer. If you ever make it up the coast looks us up.

 

[Ctskip]

and you think you have problems?

I moved from Oklahoma to Texas, just east of Dallas. I hunted for just the right lake and found one. Got the last slip in the marina. This was in November 07. I moved, then hired a hauler to haul the boat to Texas. Now comes the inclement weather. Rain, torrential rain. The lake in OK is 25 feet above normal now. Boats on trailers are all piled up against the towers,(high spot) so I can't lower my mast. Cancel the hauler. Here it is April and the lake is still 20 feet above normal. One can't even drive up to the yacht club. Still boats piled up on the high spot near the towers. Still cant get my boat here. The small lake in OK is a jewel too. Only one tower for mast removal on the whole lake. Paying for two slips and not being able to sail is looking like its a dream. One where I used to own a sailboat. Someday the lake will go down and the boats on trailers will return to their shoreline resting spots, and I'll get my boat out of the &6%#@* lake and brought down here so I can hug and kiss her. Frustrating as all hell. I'll take the scratches any day. Just let me sit in my cockpit and enjoy the sunset. Keep it up, Ctskip

 

[Ross]

Ctskip, Can you move the boat to a clear spot where a sign

installer can get his truck/crane? Around here they can be hired by the hour.

 

[Joseph Shirley]

Ahhh, The perfect rational for

lifting the mast out with two other boats spinnaker halyards. We discussed this in a previous thread.Joe S

 

[Ctskip]

Both are great ideas

Thank you. I'll look into these as options. Now if there's enough room to maneuver a boat moving rig into the club, I'll be set. I really don't want to send a rig up there and not be able to get in to where he has to go. As of this moment, the club house looks like a island with boats on trailers all around it. Can't even get there by vehicle. They have a launch to ferry to and from the street. 4 ft deep at the entrance gate. Terrible that this sailing season is starting out on this note. Thank you Army Corp of Engineers. They are worried about flooding down stream in Ft Smith, Ark, so they hold the water back, flooding the smaller lakes and rivers. And the lake is such a jewel to sail on. Hardly any power boats to speak of. I guess one has to pay for their enjoyment, in one way or the other. I knew it was to good to be true. For all the ups, this is, but, one of the downers. Wading through water to get to ones craft is another. But one gets used to that. No electricity is another.  Keep it up, Ctskip

 

[Rich (P303)]

make sure...

you take a video of the operation for u-tube.

 

[Ctskip]

Never could figure that U tube thing out

I think I'll wait till all conditions are just right. I've rushed things before and it always seems better for me, to be patient and enjoy life as it is dealt. I am a patient man. Alook at my face and you'll see no wrinkles here. Thanks for you idea. I'd like to see it done a few times, before I try it on my Mistico. Thanks for the help.  Keep it up, Ctskip