Date:         Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:49:48 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Sailing experience, anyone? (No Vanagon Content)
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This question may appeal to anyone who owns a
sailboat, or who sails, or who just klnows more
than I do about them. I have never been sailing.


I am attempting to kedge a sailboat off a beach
this Friday.

Kedging is the nautical term for winching.

It's been there for 46 days, on a remote beach,
high and dry, since it was grounded there October
18. Several good floating high tides have come
and gone. The owner has abandoned it.

It's a wood hull, 30 feet long, lead keel, no
engine, but has sails. It's been spared damage by
winter storms but came very close today.

A friend is helping me. We have a chain , Navy
anchor, winches (2 2-ton come-alongs.

Still needed is 100 feet of line .

I have been hiking and paddling this beach all my
life. I work long hours, 6 days a week- I guess
you could say this challenge is a break from the
daily grind.

And I hate to see it lost.
There's a bouy out 100 yds or so we will tie up
to after we float it.

We have inspected the hull- it is sound, no
leaks, the bilge had only 3 or 4 gallons of
water, and the waves wash around the boat at high
tide.

The approach to the low -tide mark is smooth and
clear. If we can get it out 50 feet that will be
over 7 feet of water at high tide.

Any ideas or advice p-mail me.

I told you there was no Vanagon content. Just
that i will be using my Westfalia to bring the
kayaks down where we'll be using to bring the
towing equipment with.

Robert

1982 Westfalia



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