Chiara’s slave
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10mm has plenty to strength. Plenty of stretch too, which may well be a good thing. We have to put rubber shock absorbers in our mooring lines, I bet that's not needed in 100m or more of 10mm.
Your longest rope on the boat
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Neeves
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Its not as simple as length you need to factor in how much you draw - as some of us can dry out and still not spill the coffee on the saloon table. Not quite dried out - just need a bit more patience.
Jonathan
Neeves
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Storing all this string for shore lines commands much ingenuity as Frank shows (above).
Jonathan
Jonathan
dunedin
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Spare rope is precisely that - rope. It only becomes a sheet, halyard, etc when assigned to a specific purpose - to be pedantic about your pedantry
The Q
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To use rope length / boat length ratio, roughly 2.5...
GHA
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think it's back > Home Page - WXtoImg Restored
Edit, bit more involved, you ned to download the keplers yourself it seems, and mark NOAA 17 as not active.
WxtoImg Fix - USRadioguy.com
Or just run this in powershell >
Invoke-WebRequest http://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/weather.txt -OutFile C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\WXtoImg\weather.txt
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Neeves
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A 10m yacht carrying a mixed rode with a maximum of 25m of cordage leaving opportunity to anchor in 5m depth at 5:1 - hope the tides are not too severe.
And 2:1 halyards - impossible.
Jonathan
Chiara’s slave
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Even by our standards, that would be a very short one. And 2:1 halyards, not sure what you mean there.
Neeves
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I'm not sure what your problem is. A 10m monohull yacht would have a mast of about 12m so a 2:1 halyard would need to be 25m (so 2.5:1) just to cover the mast - but if everyone has mast based winches.....fine
Earlier in the thread Daydream mentioned 2:1 halyards and you then seemed to understand the concept. Are you standing as President somewhere?
Just needs a little bit of lateral thinking.
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You’re right, its another 13 metres longer.
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Jonathan
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Daydream believer
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Are Neeves & Chiara thinking of getting married? They are starting off on the right foot, that is for sure. Can we all come to the wedding- it will be a gay affair?
fredrussell
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No? Tough crowd.
Sandy
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To quote my old Sea Scout Leader, an old sea dog who became a Coastguard when we had full time coastguards living in CG Stations, there is only one rope in a boat the bell rope.
I don't have a bell onboard so no ropes.
I don't have a bell onboard so no ropes.
Daydream believer
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Never been roped in to crew the boat then?
Stingo
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See a pedant's reply in #44
The Q
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I don't anchor, I tie up to the club or alongside my motorboat.
Tidal range for an individual tide about a foot, but extreme high to extreme low about 3 ft.
Water depth, in the middle of the channel about 10ft, at the edges just over 3ft..
B27
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What anchor and scope should a land yacht use?
zoidberg
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You've just reminded me....
In 1980 ( jeez - that long ago...!) I came Second in the First Great Trans-Dhofar Land Yacht Race. The prize was a weekend for two in the Salalah Hilton. Oman was then seriously misogynist and it was an 'unaccompanied posting', so I traded the coupon for a solitary cold beer.
Each of the 18 entrants had a 'supplied' support helicopter - a Bell UH-1 Iroquois 'Huey' c/w water, med team and 4 SSF 'security' types - and the Thumrait Hunter jocks with their tame Photo-Interpreters spent 5 weeks running recce sorties across 100 miles or so of proto-desert between the Escarpment and the Rub'Al Khali to generate some route mapping, for there wasn't any. Dhofar was then not at all a gentle and peaceful neighbourhood. Every adult male carried a loaded weapon, for that was the culture. There was good reason...
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Chiara’s slave
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I’m not quite sure what his issue is, and I still don’t understand his original bit about 2:1 halyards or his response to me or why he seems angry. I simply asked what he meant as it was not clear to me.Are Neeves & Chiara thinking of getting married? They are starting off on the right foot, that is for sure. Can we all come to the wedding- it will be a gay affair?
Neeves
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Land Anchors, not so unusual. Used by 4x4s as a fixed point to which you can attach the winch rope (or more likely, wire) when you become bogged. Common here as in the various deserts there might be a lot of sand, no trees and no rocks (or not nearby).
Made by the usual suspects
Land Anchor PRT - Anchor Right Australia
Jonathan
Made by the usual suspects
Land Anchor PRT - Anchor Right Australia
Jonathan
Frank Holden
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Yep, knew about that but I have been struggling with it. Have spent the last 24 hours installing powershell on my old Macbook but it rejects that Invoke-Web request, sigh.