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dasreboot
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Initially Posted - 09/26/2012 : 11:11:05

Yesterday took an after work sail on my c25. As I cleared the creek and into the Potomac, the wind started to get a bit gusty, so i left the reef in the main fro the previous week and unfurled the headsail only a halfway. The boat was incredibly slow and i could not figure it out. So I shook the reef out and unfurled the 135 all the way out. I was a bit overpowered, but still slow. I went all the way across the river and tacked to come back, and she would not do it. Three times she would go head to wind and then fall off again. I gave up and just jibed around since I had to get home sometime. Halfway back I noticed the steering felt weird. Looked over the stern and what did I see, but a crab pot buoy wedged in the rudder. I dragged it across the river and back! After releasing it the boat took off like a rocket!

Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 09/26/2012 : 11:12:29

Hope you at least got a crab dinner out of it.

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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 09/26/2012 : 11:24:32

well no I had to cut the line. could not push it off. Felt bad about it, but I was not going in the water by myself!

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CarbonSink62
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Response Posted - 09/26/2012 : 12:09:36

I picked up a lobster pot in the Piscataqua River last weekend; they're very hard to avoid at night.

I'm wondering if I need to station someone on the bow with a spotlight...

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 09/26/2012 : 22:01:14

Gives you an appreciation of the speed and handling of your boat!

I know watermen's livelihoods should be respected, but around here, where many pots belong to amateurs, too many are located where vessels will be passing--sometimes in limited visiblity or heavy seas. I do my best, but I will not appreciate "picking one up" in traffic areas--especially when there's a marker nearby where they could have dropped on the non-traffic side. I've seen some right in channels--I'm tempted to go over and cut them.

One pot warp around my prop could mess up an $18K+ engine. ("...and your pot was worth how much??")

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