{"id":2215,"date":"2022-03-19T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T07:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trypod.co.nz\/imagine\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2022-03-20T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:10:52","slug":"haulout-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trypod.co.nz\/imagine\/2022\/03\/19\/haulout-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Haulout – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday 18th March Yesterday we thought we had better see if we could haul anchor or would we have to cut it. After holding us throughout the flood, we knew the anchor would have buried itself deep in the mud.
\nSo we followed normal procedure, slowly drive forward while winching in the chain (with our new winch). That didn’t last long. We only pulled up 10m before it came to a grinding halt. Thirty metres to go. Okay, put the chain brake on and increase the revs. Okay, full revs.
\nI think that did something! Then the bow dipped and we stopped again. Slow the engine take it out of gear and let the river current drag us back while winching up the chain. Mmmm, twenty five metres to go. Lets try full throttle to port. Full throttle to starboard. That gained us another two metres.
\nWe repeated this for 2 hours. We were just about to quit, Imagine lurched forward and we were free.
\nTen minutes later we were back on anchor knowing we could haul anchor this morning.
\nThis morning we hauled anchor with no problems and slowly cruised down river dodging all the debris. We saw a few of the boats have returned to the river.
\nOnce at Rivergate we had the usual problem of backing Imagine into crane slings. Imagine does not like backing up.
\nIt took most of the day for the yard crew to get Imagine into position on the yard and secure the cradle. She didnt look as bad as we thought, lots of scratches and a few chips back to the fibreglass, but not too bad. As soon as it was safe Andrew started on the mount for the new transducer and Sue started scraping the barnacles off.
\nBy 5pm we were stuffed.
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