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[NoStrings]

come on BJ, are you saving the Homerian prose for someplace down the way? Your kid risked his limbs to get that sucker back on board. Come on now....

[Paps]

Glad it went well BJ, a confidence builder. You are in a new phase, living aboard without boundaries or hard bits to attach to. Good on you.

I had to check back to the blog to get some sense of "this" anchor. Had I known I would have put out a public announcement! " Hurricane safe moorings available in Deltaville, call for quote"

Now you know "Old Miz" works you can put her in a safe place and get to know her younger sisters. Its nice to get to know your lightest anchor too for short stops.

[B.J. Porter]

Glad it went well BJ, a confidence builder. You are in a new phase, living aboard without boundaries or hard bits to attach to. Good on you.

I had to check back to the blog to get some sense of "this" anchor. Had I known I would have put out a public announcement! " Hurricane safe moorings available in Deltaville, call for quote"

Now you know "Old Miz" works you can put her in a safe place and get to know her younger sisters. Its nice to get to know your lightest anchor too for short stops.

Might lightest anchor (100 lb Manson) is actually my every day anchor.

We've throw around ideas about a stern anchoring setup, but I'm a little fuzzy on what a lunch hook for this boat looks like. We probably should have something back there...I've no desire to hump the 105 lb CQR to the stern.

[crash]

Well, he either got them up on Thursday or he cut them loose. I saw him going south down the bay early on thursday afternoon as I was headed up to Deltaville to get hauled for the winter.

Nice looking boat BJ!

Thanks. Were we sailing then? We only could sail for part of it, light and variable much of the day but the breeze finished well!

It went pretty smoothly. The chain was an unholy mess of mud, anchor #1 came right up into the roller. #1 son went down in the dinghy and tied anchor two up to the jib halyard while I removed the shackle and seizing from the Manson. Manson was slightly muddy, Luke was less so. We cranked it up with one of the powered primary winches and set it down on a tarp gentle as you please with no problems.

No, you were still motoring...had just turned south out of the river...wind was light then. I thought about giving you a holler on the VHF, but it looked like you were still stowing stuff and getting organized. Wind had been good all morning 12-15 from the west. We sailed on a really nice beam reach from Hampton to just north of Wolf Trap light. Then the wind went NW and dropped to around 6 knots on us, so we cranked up the iron genny and motorsailed the last 2 hours. Averaged 6 kts and rode the flood all the way up the bay. I figured you had waited for the tide to turn so you could ride the ebb back down south...