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 Yep on the four, a 90 Honda; great little motor and perfect for that 19 foot skiff. I had previously used a dozer sprocket for a secure semi-permanent anchor in that cove at our camp, but the ice came early one fall and it got dragged come the next spring. Our little 'hook' has good protection from all but one direction, but even then, sometimes we get a pretty good 'roll' in our anchorage. No fun sticking a boat on an ebb tide out on the delta of a big muddy like the Yukon.  You can walk for miles.  Right on. Lots of places here you can duck into if you've got a mooring--of whatever flavor--and most of them are OK on the ball or hook, but inside, the tide must be minded. These boys, commercial clammers, came in on the ebb to mine bivalves. At full flood, the clam flats and the skiffs you see in the mud there are under ten feet or better of the Atlantic. ![[Linked Image]](http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/birddown/clam/IMG_9016.jpg) Stuck, and miles from where you want to be? I've NEVER, EVER, EVER been in that predicament. Almost never. Which is about 6 times too many. How do you say 'I hate myself and this farking death march from Hades in the demon sucking mud' in the local tongue? 
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Awwwwww those were funny pics. Although they wouldn't have been funny for the boat owner.
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Awwwwww those were funny pics. Although they wouldn't have been funny for the boat owner. Nope. Or for the other three guys bear hunting with him. Trust me, I know. I was one of them. 100 miles is a long walk...
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Used to be an older guy that sold rope remnants from his van at the junction of Hwy 49 and 119 a few years back. I don't think I ever went by that I did not stop and buy something. Got enough hemp to hang congress. Hope I get to use it.
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Awwwwww those were funny pics. Although they wouldn't have been funny for the boat owner. Nope. Or for the other three guys bear hunting with him. Trust me, I know. I was one of them. 100 miles is a long walk... Ouch, I bet you wished you could make the guy who anchored it so short go Poof.
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Nah. He was the first man to take me under his wing, as it were, suffer me my ignorance and take me hunting so-called big game. Killed a bear with him in SE AK, my first animal bigger than a goose. I'll forever be grateful to him, and have a great deal of respect for him.
That said, I think he learned a lesson about the folly/dangers of insufficient scope, and double hooks (he chose to anchor both bow and stern, in a tidal estuary with a 17 foot tide). Oops.
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Nah. He was the first man to take me under his wing, as it were, suffer me my ignorance and take me hunting so-called big game. Killed a bear with him in SE AK, my first animal bigger than a goose. I'll forever be grateful to him, and have a great deal of respect for him.
Well because of that we will forgive him. He sounds like he must be a real good guy.
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