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Old 10-20-2014, 05:35 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by tpbrady View Post
I looked at the same 39 at the Annapolis show last week and agree with Retriever on the layout of the old 37 versus the 39. The comment on single handing is nice to know. When I last saw Retriever in Craig, he was sandwiched between some 40-50 foot seiners rafted 4 deep in front of him and 3 deep behind him. I always wondered how he got out of that.

Tom
Tom, good to see you on here. Getting out of that spot actually wasn't bad. I kicked the stern out with a quick burst of forward against the rudder hard over towards the dock, then used the bow thruster to rotate the bow 90 degrees. At that point I was perpendicular to the rafted seiners and I motored right out.

Even if I'd had a stern thruster I couldn't have just scooted out sideways. I had about 46 feet of length to work with on the dock, but had to shoot through an opening that was only about 38 feet wide because the wind was blowing the raft of seiners behind me forward and their lines were stretching a bit.
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