08-30-2007
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Of course, there is the other alternative... which I used accidentally last summer... We had snagged a lobster pot line but I wasn't aware of it, since we were still making over five knots in less than eight knots of wind. By the time we slowed and got the pot free... we had dragged it the better part of a nautical mile...  It probably took him a while to find it. 
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Originally Posted by otaga05
Thanks for the suggestion about the hook knife Freesail, but I really do have a problem with just cutting the warp and as someone else indicated, the dive on a drifting boat would still be necessary, and as I was alone, significantly more dangerous. Each trap setup probably cost the fisherman more than $100, so no matter how frustrating the only time I would just cut is if the vessel was in immediate danger due to the entanglement.
Rev Mike, this type of thing "....can really drive you insane"
Sailingdog, I really do wonder about what some fishermen are thinking some times with pot placement. I came home one day recently to find that somone had dropped his trap right smack in the middle of the entrance buoys to my home port which are less than 100 ft apart. The other thing which drives me nuts is when they leave more than 50 ft of warp between the float and the toggle and set then the line so that it is only about three feet below the surface.
I read an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine some years ago which discussed a lobster fishing system which I believe was used in Australia. The system was that only a certain number of fishing permits existed, sort of like cab medallions in NYC. They could be traded on the open market for whatever price they would fetch. The net result was that the fishermen had to set and haul significantly less in the way of traps to achieve an economically viable catch. Less work, less diesel burned fewer traps cluttering up the water. I have often wondered whether such a system could ever fly in the US. But it really does seem that the number of traps and the lack of judgement in their placement increases from year to year.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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