NET PULLING
 
We should have got the answer to pulling up a net from 100m plus at 5:30am.
I got the idea from Pirate Pete, who says he has laid a few nets (and more
than a few maidens) in all the seven seas.
 
You just thread the rope through a ring at the base of a very large buoy
(you say booies, we English call them boys), tie it to the boat, and gun the
motor. (Or here, in the Philippines, you wait for a bit while Ali Mang fixes
the thingamajig, which has gone wrong, yet again).
 
The buoy should brake in the water, and act like a pulley, so the rope slips
through quite easily. In each rope, just at the top of the net, you have a
bit of spring steel (or wire coat hanger) which comes up through the ring,
but not back again.
 
So you just gather up the rope, go back to the buoy, and there is the net,
hanging just a couple of feet down.
 
Says Pirate Pete.
 
Instead, the buoy comes following faithfully after you like a little doggy,
the net drags over the bottom, scattering shells and all, and comes up
tangled up with the coat hanger catches.
 
So now we just haul away through two pulleys attached to the outriggers. Ali
Mang's solution - he knows what he's doing.
 
Richard Parker
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