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Harvey, have they given you an estimate?

Harvey, any idea how that stuff holds up in salt water?

Doh. I thought you were talking about painting the entire chain. I've been using those chain markers from West Marine.

Harvey, why did you repaint your rode? I've not heard of that practice.

Bob, do you know if any portion of those investigations, e.g. hearings, is conducted in public? Typically, is a record of the proceedings published somewhere?

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So how many is too many?

Just pack 'em in, the more the merrier. Here's the new normal, coming soon to a former bucolic farming area near you: U District micro-apartment: affordable steal or ‘prison cell’?

Looks like a job for Mother Nature. Carl Hiaasen once wrote that to solve it's population problem, "South Florida needs a killer hurricane."

From my perspective, the world will be aesthetically uninhabitable long before we reach its actual carrying capacity, whatever that may prove to be. Anyone else feel we're getting close to that point?

Hear, hear!

I doubt anyone in this group would play chicken with a ferry -- or a .30 cal. machine gun.

John, do I recall correctly that you're anchoring in 500-600 feet of water? That sounds scary. What are you fishing for at those depths?

Maybe you can save a life or two and just tell us what happened when you performed that experiment.

Granted, this was the (east) Indian Coast Guard, not the U.S. team, but ... Coast Guard Warning Shots Hit Two Fishermen Near Kerala Coast Ricochets were involved.

Do you lower the second anchor through a fitting on the bow, and lead the line back to your cockpit? And is it an all-rope rode?

Kushtaka, I'm having trouble visualizing your system. Assuming that you run your line hauler from your cockpit, how are you getting your rode back into the locker?

How does that happen? Is there a way to delete inadvertent duplicate posts?

One news story said, "Access to all national parks will be free in 2017 to mark Canada’s 150th birthday." Looks like a family pass normally costs $136. The news story says the free pass website was swamped with demand today.

Sorry about all that noise, Peter and Judy. It has been a standard feature of otherwise lovely Whidbey Island for many years. As the Naval Air folks like to say, "it's the sound of freedom." I think you get used to it after a while.