Isn't there a mooring ball hook that you can make and/or buy? -----Original Message----- >From: Jim Lynch <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 1, 2011 9:42 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Liveaboard] Picking up mooring > >I'm about to venture off into an area I'm not familiar with. I'm going >to single hand the boat down to mid-florida and probably have to pick up >a mooring without benefit of a first mate. I've done it before alone >but that was with a much smaller boat a lot closer to the water and I >was considerably quicker in my youth. Any suggestions as to how to >pickup a mooring from 4' above the water single handed? I'm thinking >about bringing the mooring along side with a long line from the bow, but >it's tricky getting a knot in the line or a line through the loop and >then getting back to the bow. How does anyone do that? > >Thanks, >Jim. >_______________________________________________ >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
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