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Title: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: MattB on July 13, 2015, 03:26:44 PM
Hello,

I'm including a photograph of a vessel with something hanging off of it's stern. But what is it? Could it be a Walker log? Or an unsecured mooring line or perhaps something a little more dubious?

Kind regards,
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: Piotrowski Remigiusz on July 13, 2015, 09:55:14 PM
Most probably somebody forgot to take back heaving line :)
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: canberra97 on July 15, 2015, 09:18:02 PM
Looks more like the bow to me rather than the 'stern'!

SEAN
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: Jordan Seifarth on July 15, 2015, 11:37:47 PM
The photo is greatly enlarged, you'll need to scroll over to the right to see the line he means off the stern.
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: steve55 on July 16, 2015, 09:01:51 PM
Quote from: canberra97 on July 15, 2015, 09:18:02 PM
Looks more like the bow to me rather than the 'stern'!

SEAN
Are you serious or what ?
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: miraflores on July 17, 2015, 02:43:31 PM
When I started to work on a ship in 1964 we had no washing machine on board, to clean our blue jeans we tied them to a heaving line and towed them behind us at a speed of 10 kn about 1 or 2 hours, after that they were clean.

Juergen
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: m.a.r.t.i.n on July 17, 2015, 07:49:14 PM
Looks like ideal shark fishing weather to me, depends where the shot was taken??

Martin
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: canberra97 on July 18, 2015, 07:58:07 PM
Quote from: Jordan Seifarth on July 15, 2015, 11:37:47 PM
The photo is greatly enlarged, you'll need to scroll over to the right to see the line he means off the stern.

Greatly enlarged that's an understatement but thanks for pointing it out as I would never have known otherwise.

Sean
Title: Re: What's hanging off the stern?
Post by: Captain Ted on July 19, 2015, 03:32:21 PM
@ Juergen

I thought the same,, for a fishing line it looks a little much rope.  heaving line,,could be,,but doubt it. First 2 years of my sailing on small coasters 75/76 we did not have washing machines neither. This was the way to wash working clothes,,the more delicate were done by hand.