On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:21:40 -0400, you wrote: >I have a steaming cone. I've never flown it. I don't motorsail often >and then not for long. > We used to fly the cone when we were motoring, but most of the time if we don't have a sail up I think it should be pretty obvious that we are motoring. It's only when motor sailing that you need it (IMHO)
>I also have an anchor ball which I do fly if we're spending the day >anchored. In all honesty, if we anchor in the late afternoon and leave >after breakfast I usually don't bother to put it up, but if we're >going to hang out for the day I put it up in the foretriangle on the >staysail halyard. > We usually put up the anchor ball when we put up the anchor light. They are on the same hoist - the anchor light is dark activated. So in the dark we have a light, and if it is light we have the ball. >Interestingly enough I noticed in the Bahamas last winter that there >were more powerboats/motor yachts showing anchor balls than sailboats. > >sail fast and eat well, dave >S/V Auspicious >_______________________________________________ >Liveaboard mailing list >[email protected] >To adjust your membership settings over the web >http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard >To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > >To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > >To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >The Mailman Users Guide can be found here >http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
