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I had written, in an earlier posting about trailing logs-

"It normally stays trailing from the taffrail unless I feel the need to
trail a mackerel line, as the two are incompatible."

And Bill had asked me about a mackerel line, so I explained.

Now Alex asks-

>But the original question was about the "Mackrel LINE",
>not about the Mackrel itself.
>From your (George) description I conclude that this is
>something replacing a log?

I should have nade it clear. The log line is for logging distance. The
mackerel line is for fishing. If I trail one from one corner of the
transom, and the other from the other, within a few minutes they get
themselves so intricately enmeshed that neither does its job, and it takes
half an hour to disentangle them. So if I trail a fishing line, the log
must come in, and for that period I have to estimate the distance
travelled. It's no problem.

George.

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