Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!hogg From: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John Hogg) Newsgroups: net.rec.boat Subject: Setting/locating waterski course Message-ID: <1338@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:49:50 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1338 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:49:50 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 23:29:55 EDT Reply-To: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John &) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 26 T. Jones was wondering how best to set a slalom course. While I am not a waterskier, I have to recover various permanent moorings and anchors every spring soon after break-up, and have found a simple answer: tie them together! You seem to have your anchors well set, so when you take in your floats, replace them with something that sinks, and run a light cord to each sinker in turn. Now you have a long line lying on the bottom connecting each mooring line. You can grapple for this very easily, or even run the end of the line ashore if you're close enough. (But see below.) I find the easiest sort of grapple to use is the 5-kilo Navy pattern anchor sold by Canadian Tire and its ilk; the design is so inefficient that it can pick up a line on the bottom, but will not dig itself in. They are easy to come by if you dive in popular fishing spots. Now, in exchange for these pearls of wisdom, please set up your !#&%?! course somewhere where I'm not - and if you're not using a course, stay the hell away from shore! Even in glassy weather, skiers seem to prefer to demonstrate their (in)competence 20 metres off the end of our dock. I am not impressed. My family is not impressed. Our neighbours are not impressed. And the narrow-minded laws of this country take a dim view of the purchase and employment of a small brass cannon loaded with grape, so there's not much that we can do except ask you to be civilized... -- John Hogg Computer Systems Research Institute, UofT {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!hogg