And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Now that would be a problem if you were afloat on the Bering Sea in winter.
Now take that tow line, for instance. Faulty equipment, nothing more, nothing less, but the crew, they scoffed at me and made jokes..... (click.click.click.)
Looks like someone wasn't really doing a good job of watchstanding and went over some crab pots and or a drift net. The drift nets are worse as they, well, drift, and if not monitored just get away. And yes, the Bering really is that cold and miserable in winter......
The Koreans were big on drift nets set in the N. Pacific off from N America for Salmon or Albacore. Their nets would span 40 miles or more (well over the horizon). Ship come along, slice the net, now two nets drifting. Only one attached to boat at the other end. They'd recover the radar reflectors and floats but leave the net. Not all floats recovered, net still float high enough to be caught in rudder or prop of next vessel.
Like us. I had to go over the side to cut away. Took hours. One hand cutting, then sawing with hacksaw. Other hand on hull to keep from getting brained by pitching hull. That was somewhere north of Hawaii halfway to British Columbia.
I managed to wrap a 5/8 inch dock line in my Yanmar's prop about two weeks ago. Very lucky not to damage anything except the line. Thought I hit a submarine!
Reminds me of the vacuum cleaner roller that needed constant attention because of my then-wife's sewing
ReplyDelete~ Doctor Weasel
that's the method Mike Nelson employed to thwart waterborne miscreants.
DeleteThat would be a problem where ever/when ever you are
ReplyDeleteLooks like the Caine when they ran over their tow rope........................
ReplyDeleteNow take that tow line, for instance. Faulty equipment, nothing more, nothing less, but the crew, they scoffed at me and made jokes..... (click.click.click.)
ReplyDeleteX-acto, please...
ReplyDeleteA few hours in a drysuit with surface Supplied air and a decent sharp knife, and yer Right as Rain.....
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone wasn't really doing a good job of watchstanding and went over some crab pots and or a drift net. The drift nets are worse as they, well, drift, and if not monitored just get away. And yes, the Bering really is that cold and miserable in winter......
ReplyDeleteThe Koreans were big on drift nets set in the N. Pacific off from N America for Salmon or Albacore. Their nets would span 40 miles or more (well over the horizon). Ship come along, slice the net, now two nets drifting. Only one attached to boat at the other end. They'd recover the radar reflectors and floats but leave the net. Not all floats recovered, net still float high enough to be caught in rudder or prop of next vessel.
DeleteLike us. I had to go over the side to cut away. Took hours. One hand cutting, then sawing with hacksaw. Other hand on hull to keep from getting brained by pitching hull. That was somewhere north of Hawaii halfway to British Columbia.
I managed to wrap a 5/8 inch dock line in my Yanmar's prop about two weeks ago. Very lucky not to damage anything except the line. Thought I hit a submarine!
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