Hi Charlie, never thought I could throw an anchor far enough to work as a kedge.
I've run aground many times with our old 7'4" fin keel, and our newer 6' 3" fin keel. The advantage of a fin is that when you do hit bottom, you remain very upright. And the fin presents so little area that we we usually just back out or spin off. The rudder is only 5' deep so we can usually just spin around and power out of the shallows. In fifteen years owning the boat, the longest I've been stuck aground was 45 minutes. My son and I had dinner waiting for the tide to float us off in a very narrow channel. I wonder if a better way to get off is to run a dinghy out from the side of the boat and tug on a halyard. That would heel the boat and reduce your draft a great deal and help you power off. I've never tried it, but I bought a diver's lift bag that is meant to lift 1000# using air. My intention was to tie it to a halyard run through the boom end, swing that out as far as possible and lower it into the water to gather weight and haul it up to heel the boat. That should create enough heel to reduce my draft by two feet, so I can motor off. Opinion: The Fortress anchors are very cool and well engineered and light, but I gave mine away after seeing how difficult they are to set. I presently have a Delta on the bow, and two old Danforths as backups stowed below. Chuck, Resolute, 1990 C&C 34/36R > On April 24, 2019 at 9:34 PM Charles Nelson via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: > > > I recently moved my boat from CRW to New Bern, NC via the ICW. Several > times we ran aground either because skipper error or shifting shoals that are > impossible to keep up with unless you sail in them often. > > Not surprisingly our Fortress 11 was pretty useless in grabbing the > bottom when thrown as far as I could manage! They need to be dropped and then > backed down on to grab the bottom--pulling them in after a toss just doesn't > allow them to properly set. > > My crew suggested I get about a 5 lb. danforth that can be thrown pretty > far but that will set better than a Fortress that tends to skip along the > bottom in those circumstances. > > My question for the list is what 'throwable' anchor for this situation > would you recommend? > > Charlie Nelson > Water Phantom > 1995 C&C 36XL/kcb > See situations would you recommends? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPadthrown > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >
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