After all, what you are doing when you cut a line is dropping a perpetual
killing machine to the bottom--crabs die, attracts other crabs to the pot,
which die, which attracts other crabs.  Same for lobsters.

Rick,
I believe the way you do about wantonly cutting the floats from crab or
lobster pots. However, I have installed "Spurs" on my boat. I picked up a
line off the coast of Mexico that I thought I had evaded and it did some
damage to my undercarriage. I don't want that to happen again.
I try always to avoid pot floats long lines etc. Sometimes at night or in
bad weather, I for one, can't always see them. It is under these conditions
that I really don't want to go into the water either. Nor do I want the boat
brought to a halt by a fouled prop. So I have "Spurs" not as a substitute
for careful boat handling but for protection when careful boat handling
fails.

--
Dolph and Beverly McCranie
M/V The Right Whale
(KK 48 Whaleback)

--- So I have "Spurs" not as a substitute for careful boat handling but

for protection when careful boat handling fails.
--

[RHK>]

Hope you're typical.  But from what I've seen the last couple of years,

a lot of guys seem to think Spurs give them a license to cut through a field
of crabpots at will.  Although from what I've seen in the boatyard lately,
many have also discovered , too late, that Spurs are not exactly Star Wars
light sabres and can be overwhelmed.  We had a pretty spectacular two prop
wrap that severely bent one strut in the yard not long ago.

Rick