Chuck,
We got ourselves stuck in soft sand in the Black River (South Haven,
Michigan) during the low water time on Lake Michigan. We tried most of
the easy things to get off with no luck. A power boat came up and offer
to pull us off and we were gathering lines for that when a guy came up
in a small inflatable and said he would get us off. We doubted it but
he moved the dingy around under the bow of our Redwing 35 and gave the
throttle a goose and the boat rose up and moved right off the sand bar.
He said that he does this all the time (the Black River has a fairy
narrow channel with lots of moving sediment). If you have a dingy with
you try that before hauling anchors around.
Neil Schiller
1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace"
Crosswinds Marine, Whitehall, Michigan
WLYC
Launch Date: 3 May
On 4/24/2019 11:48 PM, CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List wrote:
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
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