Between Boston and Maine, stopping spots

[Fah Kiew Tu]

I have mixed feeling about line cutters. Many people have them. I don't.  I believe they work well until you really catch something and then once jammed, are very hard to cut free, or they cut most, but not all. I only know this in theory, because I seldom catch anything. 

You all would be SOL if you ran over my mooring pickup lines. I use 8mm Dyneema. Got 1000m of it in return for some work I did so why not.

FKT

 

[MangoMan]

No liferaft. I'll die like a man.

The water temperatures North of Cape Cod, and more specifically the Gulf of Maine, are the reason I will not go sailing there without a liferaft. 

 

[Elegua]

You all would be SOL if you ran over my mooring pickup lines. I use 8mm Dyneema. Got 1000m of it in return for some work I did so why not.

FKT

That's kind of my point.  If it doesn't cut well, or you think it's cut well and it hasn't, you end up with a big melted plastic mess and maybe a new cutless bearing or worse, from what I've seen on other boats.  Good luck it cutting off on your own at that point.  If they they use the eco-friendly line, it seems to cut easily.   

Dyneema makes a great dinghy painter - floats, strong and chafe resistant - so when you eventually wrap it around your prop it can properly stop your engine. 

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

 Dyneema makes a great dinghy painter - floats, strong and chafe resistant - so when you eventually wrap it around your prop it can properly stop your engine. 

That's why I hate towing a dinghy and built davits for my boat. Sooner or later I just *knew* I'd run over the painter, and it would be ugly. And the painter *isn't* Dyneema for the same reason.

FKT

 

[Cruisin Loser]

This a pretty much inevitable result if you are transiting to buzzards bay from cape cod sound.  I may have avoided this once so I would just plan for it.  That said, my strategy that works fairly well is to motor sail with the main travelled high and head off to the right for a few miles until I’m fetching woods hole (if I’m headed for Nantucket or Vineyard haven) and then flop over.  Otherwise you can continue to bear off around as you head towards RI and LIS.   The picture below doesn’t do the phenomenon any justice   I have a short video from around the same moment that is kind of hilarious as far as the standing waves that were stopping us in our tracks   

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Eggemoggin 47?

 

[ChrisJD]

So, anyone have any advice on line cutters?  With all this talk, and with the boat still on stilts for another three or four weeks, I figure it's cheap insurance to take care of this now.  Defender has the Shaft Shark 400 on sale for $400 during the warehouse sale this week.

 

[Kris Cringle]

So, anyone have any advice on line cutters?  With all this talk, and with the boat still on stilts for another three or four weeks, I figure it's cheap insurance to take care of this now.  Defender has the Shaft Shark 400 on sale for $400 during the warehouse sale this week.

The only sure thing:

 

[ChrisJD]

That may be difficult.

 

[Elegua]

I'd hazard the wing keel might be more of an issue?

 

[Whinging Pom]

My boat came with an Ambassador Marine cutter.  Comes out well in the tests.  Only time I was aware of it working was when we got tangled with a lobster trap in the Mussel Ridge Channel.  We where ghosting along in almost no wind and the trap line wasn't pushed out of the way by the hull.  After struggling to free ourselves I started the engine and put it in gear.  Chomp!

I'd always fit one.

 

[Kris Cringle]

That may be difficult.

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When people really want one, they make them fit. Way overkill but they probably have quite a story to tell. 

 

[kent_island_sailor]

When people really want one, View attachment 435989 they make them fit. Way overkill but they probably have quite a story to tell. 

I once anchored about 0100 in the pitch dark behind Poplar Island. The next morning I was surrounded by crab traps in all directions so close I didn't see how any crab could walk 10 feet without walking into a trap. Somehow I anchored in the dark in the middle of them without catching one.

 

[Elegua]

I once anchored about 0100 in the pitch dark behind Poplar Island. The next morning I was surrounded by crab traps in all directions so close I didn't see how any crab could walk 10 feet without walking into a trap. Somehow I anchored in the dark in the middle of them without catching one.

They disappear at night. 

 

[eliboat]

Eggemoggin 47?

Yes.  A very wet ride for exiting the CCC into Buzzards Bay. 

 

[Ajax]

So, anyone have any advice on line cutters?  With all this talk, and with the boat still on stilts for another three or four weeks, I figure it's cheap insurance to take care of this now.  Defender has the Shaft Shark 400 on sale for $400 during the warehouse sale this week.

Ok, this might be crazy but if you're only going to Maine for a month, how about this?

https://anodeshack.com/zinc-salca-micro-limited-line-cutter-anode?attribute_pa_shaft-size=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw6fCCBhBNEiwAem5SO_H-PihZSIkD0DnQusTsPmhAix55Q9T95Nd6K_SX-UHOZgfU7up4choC0fwQAvD_BwE

 

[mgs]

Yes.  A very wet ride for exiting the CCC into Buzzards Bay. 

I know someone looking for photos of that boat...

 

[Ishmael]

Ok, this might be crazy but if you're only going to Maine for a month, how about this?

https://anodeshack.com/zinc-salca-micro-limited-line-cutter-anode?attribute_pa_shaft-size=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw6fCCBhBNEiwAem5SO_H-PihZSIkD0DnQusTsPmhAix55Q9T95Nd6K_SX-UHOZgfU7up4choC0fwQAvD_BwE

Looks pretty small, I would think you'd need longer blades to deal with most of the line out there.

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Looks pretty small, I would think you'd need longer blades to deal with most of the line out there.

Yeah  - I can see those teeth missing the line. OTOH it is $40 vs $400

 

[Elegua]

Yeah  - I can see those teeth missing the line. OTOH it is $40 vs $400

Looks pretty small, I would think you'd need longer blades to deal with most of the line out there.

With luck, the line will get trapped between the blades and the strut and melt. 

 

[Ishmael]

With luck, the line will get trapped between the blades and the strut and melt. 

Without luck, the line will get trapped between the blades and the strut and not melt. Far more likely.