[Public-List] chafing gear

[gordon white]

      Brigadoon II is Alberg # 275, a non-liner boat, with slightly 
different line fairleads than later boats. (and masonite cores in the decks)
     The line that chafed through was on the stern quarter, starboard 
side. The lead from the outboard piling in my slip to the cleat on deck 
is pretty fair, but all winter, with a lot of northwesterly winds 
blowing pretty much straight down my creek and at right angles to the 
slip, that line took more strain than any other. (I had a spring line 
from forward to one of the sheet winches.)

     Anyway, by late March it chafed  through both the "anti-chafing" 
gear and a practically new in 2013  3/4 inch diameter nylon line.

     It was not a disaster because I caught it before any damage was 
done, but as I said, if it had been a single line to a mooring buoy it 
would have let the boat drift loose.

  - Gordon White

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