This is the issue.I have a Fortress 16 and it makes a great kedging
anchor. I usually set it out about 100-150 feet from the boat. There is
no way I know of to kedge by throwing an anchor, you have to swim or row
it out.
Joe
Coquina
C&C 35 MK I
On 4/24/2019 10:33 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List wrote:
I'm not convinced you can throw an anchor far enough to kedge. You
wouldn't have a lot of scope and you'd be pulling up rather than
horizontally.
I've always thought that kedging was best accomplished by hauling an
anchor well away from the boat with a dinghy or floating it out on a PFD.
I was on an old LST in the Navy. After we beached the ship bow first,
we would lower a stern anchor down and tie it to a couple of large
timbers tied between two Higgins Papa boats. (A Papa boat is the one
usually shown in Marine storming the beach films where the ramp drops
down and the Marines charge ashore.) The Papa boats would carry the
anchor out a hundred yards or so and a bosun mate would cut the line
with an axe. Then we'd pull the ship off the beach with the stern
anchor. Now THAT's kedging.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 8:35 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?
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