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    (Returning from the cruise out, approaching the brothers under motor: 6.2 knots Via Engine by Dave) is it a bungee cord?

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    I can imagine a few "hinged" things that might function as a mast step and also a rudder pintle/gudgeon setup, but you've got me on it being a "hiking aid". I mean...hiking aid?

    boots...wool socks....hiking poles....bandaids!
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    I was thinking of a carabiner but it has a moving part. And the cheap ones from an auto parts store will break.
    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    Good Morning, Ants. Suspect you had a bit of breeze in Bodfish yesterday. We had frost here last night, but not the hard freeze of inland. With a windchill corrected temp of 28 degrees, riding my bike this morning to the Harbor called for full gear including fleece face mask.

    Your guess of a plastic wheel chock could indeed be a lightweight and useful addition to a bosun's locker. However, it is not the answer I am looking for. Remember, this object can facilitate a quick change in a boat's direction. As well, having no moving parts, but being an important connector, it's strength is unrivaled for something as inexpensive..I've never heard of one breaking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlanH View Post
    I can imagine a few "hinged" things that might function as a mast step and also a rudder pintle/gudgeon setup, but you've got me on it being a "hiking aid". I mean...hiking aid? boots...wool socks....hiking poles....bandaids!
    Alan: not talking "poles or bandaids, boots or wool socks", though as kids we used to use wet wool clothing as a hiking aid to increase our weight on the windward rail against the big guys upwind in breeze. I believe such means, i.e. wearing weight belts, water bags, wet clothing exceeding 8 kilos (17.6 pounds) is now outlawed by RRS Rule 43, as well as common sense, unless your boat has lifelines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Gutoff View Post
    I was thinking of a carabiner but it has a moving part. And the cheap ones from an auto parts store will break.
    Not sure a carabiner would work as an anchor unless it was clipped to something. I used one of our mystery items recently as an anchor while reading Wooden Boat adrift in a local backwater.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    Alan: not talking "poles or bandaids, boots or wool socks", though as kids we used to use wet wool clothing as a hiking aid to increase our weight on the windward rail against the big guys upwind in breeze. I believe such means, i.e. wearing weight belts, water bags, wet clothing exceeding 8 kilos (17.6 pounds) is now outlawed by RRS Rule 43, as well as common sense, unless your boat has lifelines.
    Oh "hiking"... THIS kind of hiking...

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    or this kind of hiking?

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    Plastic bucket?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SFBaysailor View Post
    Plastic bucket?
    Sorry, not a plastic bucket. But a good reminder you can never have too many buckets of different sizes on an ocean crossing. They are inexpensive, light weight, uses are many, and they disappear over the side if not dipping for water correctly (fore to aft). In the 1971 Transpac, the 73 ketch GRAYBEARD was saved by her energized crew when her rudder and skeg tore off the bottom during morning roll call, leaving a football sized hole.

    The 5 bilge pumps were unable to keep up with the leak, an estimated 250 -300 gallons/minute. Fortunately a thrifty Scot in the crew, Dr. J.A. MacMillan, had acquired 12 neatly nested plastic buckets in Cape Town during GRAYBEARD's circumnavigation and stowed them in the bilge. A bucket brigade was formed and GRAYBEARD was saved in the 5 hours between the holing of the hull and the arrival of a Coast Guard plane with multiple airlifted gasoline pumps.

    During the bucket brigade and parachuted pumps, GRAYBEARD's crew plugged the hole with a sleeping bag and rigged a sail collision mat while the boat drifted under small jib. All this was transpiring while the fleet listened intently on the radio to developments, and we on WINDWARD PASSAGE, leading the race on record pace, stood by to turn back if needed. Fortunately the leak was slowed, and GRAYBEARD eventually was towed the remaining 500 miles to Hono by the Coast Guard sea going buoy tender BUTTONWOOD.*

    GRAYBEARD eventually crossed the finish line at Diamond Head under tow by BUTTONWOOD, water still spraying over the side from the pumps and her giant rudder/skeg lashed on deck. As GRAYBEARD entered Ala Wai Harbor in the afternoon, a rousing cheer went up from a large crowd of spectators and well wishers.

    "Buckets? We don't need no stinkin' buckets." Wanna bet?

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    *BUTTONWOOD, a Mesquite class, seagoing, buoy tender operated by the United State's Coast Guard, was a famous ship and roamed the Pacific during, and after World War II, servicing navigation aids and performing many rescues of ships and downed aircraft. Her life tale is epic rivaling Farley Mowat's tug sea stories of FOUNDATON FRANKLIN and FOUNDATION JOSEPHINE.

    BUTTONWOOD was home ported at CG San Francisco's Yerba Buena Island until 2000. During this posting BUTTONWOOD recovered debris from the crash of a US Air Force HC-130 off Cape Mendocino in November 1996. She hauled wreckage onto her buoy deck for later analysis on shore which helped solve the mystery why the 4 turbo-prop engines had quit in mid-flight, causing the loss of 10 of the 11 crew.
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    rim?
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    good luck with the under $10 part of that...^

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