In Australia they sell a big stainless screw - looks like a 12"wine bottle cork screw. This fits neatly into a piece of ABS pipe so it can be stored without worry about puncturing the dinghy. I've seen a similar device in the US for anchoring the end of a dog leash. I just screwed it into the sand above the high tide mark and tied the painter to it.
It worked fine in the Bahamas when my only concern was to hold the dinghy on the beach. If traveling where the anchor may be needed to anchor the dinghy in open water, I would bring my 13 lb folding grapnel stored in a heavy cloth bag, or sometimes a bucket. Don _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveabo...@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
