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Yep great weekend on the ocean too. Got down to camp on about half tide ebb....wanted to put my mooring on the beach for it's annual inspection, so at low tide I took up all the slack on the chain. Then ran out my main boat anchor with the skiff and then ran out a stern anchor to maintain position, went ashore and relaxed in muh hammock and waited. The bride got done unpacking, making lunch and generally getting the camp up to speed, came out and saw me all stretched out.....said...testily..."I though you were pulling the mooring out??" I said..."I am"...lol...she didn't get it....once the tide was nearly high I rowed back out and idled the Seaway in close to shore and lowered the mooring down onto the beach......no need pulling and yanking.....just let the tide do all the work. When the tide went out I walked down and cleared off all the marine growth from the ropes and chain.......replaced all the ropes and bleached the buoys....the chain was in good condition except the last three links were pretty thin where it shackles to the mushroom anchor......the eye in the shank of the anchor was also eroded pretty badly. So sometime this summer it looks like I have to invest in another 150lb mushroom......I can rebuild the eye in the old one to keep as a spare but have to bring it home to weld on it.....got about ten years out of this one.....I leave it in year around....this is safe enough for this summer but wouldn't trust it in the fall/winter westerlies.......good to know......if it gets dicey sometime while I'm out there before it's replaced I'll just run out a storm anchor......or two...
 
Yep great weekend on the ocean too. Got down to camp on about half tide ebb....wanted to put my mooring on the beach for it's annual inspection, so at low tide I took up all the slack on the chain. Then ran out my main boat anchor with the skiff and then ran out a stern anchor to maintain position, went ashore and relaxed in muh hammock and waited. The bride got done unpacking, making lunch and generally getting the camp up to speed, came out and saw me all stretched out.....said...testily..."I though you were pulling the mooring out??" I said..."I am"...lol...she didn't get it....once the tide was nearly high I rowed back out and idled the Seaway in close to shore and lowered the mooring down onto the beach......no need pulling and yanking.....just let the tide do all the work. When the tide went out I walked down and cleared off all the marine growth from the ropes and chain.......replaced all the ropes and bleached the buoys....the chain was in good condition except the last three links were pretty thin where it shackles to the mushroom anchor......the eye in the shank of the anchor was also eroded pretty badly. So sometime this summer it looks like I have to invest in another 150lb mushroom......I can rebuild the eye in the old one to keep as a spare but have to bring it home to weld on it.....got about ten years out of this one.....I leave it in year around....this is safe enough for this summer but wouldn't trust it in the fall/winter westerlies.......good to know......if it gets dicey sometime while I'm out there before it's replaced I'll just run out a storm anchor......or two...

Ya ort ta veld own tainlis teel..........not no prublum den.....

Let's me knew.......
 
Been running the "Old Man's Gravelys! Getting spoiled fast!!! Rain doesn't bother these machines. In fact nothing does!! lol
like Jerrys' "Mighty Mouses"!!! :yes:
Picked up another Gravely the other day... going to build two more I guess... an L-8 and an L-i. Never had an L-i before... ok.. I've never had a running L-i before.
 
Ya ort ta veld own tainlis teel..........not no prublum den.....

Let's me knew.......

Stainless and salt water are made for each other! One Asian guy I know well calls it stain rust steel, can`n get him to say it straight and oh, never send him someplace to pick up varsol....LOL
 
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