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From: Lee Huddleston (no email)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 18:56:22 EDT
> What I do is to pass a line from a bow cleat through the fouling stuff
>and back up to the deck cleat Yes, I would have, but the durn thing
>was snarled up in the cable...don't ask me how it managed that! I think
>the cable was slack until that old minesweeper somehow tensioned it and
>that made it 'grab' my anchor. In addition to all this, I had dropped a
>spare anchor so if I had to throw that one off, I could, and I managed
>to get it fouled in the prop...had to dive in 3 kt currents...it was a
>good test of the high tech 'swim fins', but was part of the reason I was
>sore for three weeks. -Ken
>
Ken,
While I am trying to rearrange my life so that I can live on my beloved
Truelove north of Beaufort, N.C., I am living in Bowling Green, KY and
sailing an O'Day 25 on an inland, manmade lake. When they empounded the
lake they left a lot of large stumps. Catching the flukes of an anchor
under one of these stumps, sometimes at more than 50 feet of depth, can
slow down your day. Since the lake has so much particulate matter at
depth, even scuba equipment would be next to worthless for retrieving the
anchor. Here is what I have learned to do that might be helpful to you if
you snag a cable again.
Tighten the anchor rode so that it is as straight as you can manage. Put a
one-foot length of chain around the rode and tie the ends together with a
line. With that line, lower the circle of chain along the rode. You may
have to shake the rode from time to time to help the circle of chain go all
the way down. The object is to get the circle of chain to slip down the
shank of the anchor. When you have succeeded in doing that, slack off on
the rode, move the boat around to the other side of the anchor (or use the
dinghy) and pull up on the line holding the circle of chain. If you are
skilled (or damned lucky -- they don't call the ends of anchors "fluke" for
nothing) you will be able to pull the anchor backwards, away from the stump
or cable.
Good luck.
Lee Huddleston
s/v Truelove
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