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Old 04-28-2014, 08:56 PM   #47
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The particular problem I ran into (pun intended) was a combination of sea chop, sun in my eyes, and toggle rigging. Without a toggle, you just run to one side or the other of the buoy, and I agree that it's actually pretty hard to pick one up. As a kid I have to confess to expressly trying and never succeeding. But the toggles are killers. For those who haven't seen them before, each buoy has it's mate, and they are tied together with a line at or near the surface. Run between them and it's curtains. With the sun in your eyes and a little chop, the buoys appear and disappear so are hard to keep an eye on, and even harder to figure out who's paired with who. I didn't spot one pair until I was on top of them right in between the two buoys.
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