I also want to encourage to feel free to ask questions, they are not "dumb wheel", but questions to which many of us appreciate answers. The only dumb question is one that is not asked. Steve I don't know about that Steve. I once asked my ex-wife, "Will you marry me?" Even a face palm couldn't undo that question. Bill "C" Day M-15, "Gee Whiz!", 363 On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:28 PM, stevetrapp <stevetrapp@q.com> wrote:
David, Thank you for changing the subject line on your e-mail to the subject you are actually discussing. I get weary of opening M-boat e-mails with a subject line indicating thing-a-jigs, but the discussion is about whatch-ma-callits. I like to have an approximate idea about the subject before I read half of it. I also want to encourage to feel free to ask questions, they are not "dumb wheel", but questions to which many of us appreciate answers. The only dumb question is one that is not asked. Steve M-15 # 335
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Grah" <d_b_grah@yahoo.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: M_Boats: Avoiding Kiting at Anchor
This is my third and final "dumb wheel" question for the group this evening.
I have spend a lot of nights on my Montgomery 15. Most of the time the wind has died in the evening so it has been close to calm overnight. A few times it has blown all night but I as secured by lines to different parts of the boat from more than one place off the boat. A time or two the wind has blown during the night and I have been at anchor and the boat has moved all over the place, back and forth, all night, which I think is called kiting.
I think I remember a group discussion about this and I think it was suggested that, assuming the anchor line is secured near the bow of the boat, that running a second line from the anchor line to near the stern so that the boat is kept at an angle to the wind reduces or eliminates the kiting. I have found I am not very successful finding things in the group archives including not finding this discussion on how to deal with kiting. So I thought I would ask the group this third question and see if anyone could detail a good process to deal with kiting with a second line from the anchor line to the stern of the boat. The ways I can think of to attach this second line to the anchor line do not seem elegant, to say the least.
Thanks much!
David Grah Bishop California Montgomery 15 Serial 369 "Sky"