Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Agree. I've gone aground in panic situations and found that strong short thrusts with the engine got us off. I always try to back out straight but if she won't budge, I apply some rudder and try and spin her free, first in reverse, then forward. A burst of throttle in forward will hit the rudder and turn the boat. A burst of reverse helps push mud off the keel. It also helps to put crew on the bow to rock the keel free. I once got off by idling in reverse, setting the autohelm and joining the crew on the bow. She came free and backed off. I remember one event where we entered a small creek off of the main inlet. The entrance to this creek changes slightly with each tide and current was running about four knots and the tide falling. The range here is 4.5 feet. I know boats who stranded at this spot and had to wait for a high tide to get off. This gave me great encouragement to try anything and everything before we too were stranded for six hours. Luckily we tried every trick including timing throttle up when a boat wake came along and were able to spin and power into deeper water. It's great having tide charts that provide the estimated tide heights for any given day and I've used those to time my trips across shallow water and GPS to keep me in the channel. Tide charts showed me there are a few days each month when there is enough water in the back bay to get my boat to a marina fifteen miles inland. I ran that course ten times using the tables and only touched bottom once when I got a little off the magenta line. Just good planning. I know skippers of shoal draft boats who have suffered because they didn't consult the tables and wound up aboard a boat leaning forty five degrees for many hours waiting for the next tide. > On April 25, 2019 at 10:09 AM "Dennis C. via CnC-List" > wrote: > > Buddy of mine is a salvor. He got called to free a 48 footer stuck on a > shoal a few years ago. He showed up at high tide with all his air lift bags > and gear. He got on the boat, put the boat in full reverse, hit the bow > thruster alternating port and starboard. After a couple minutes of wiggling > the bow back and forth, the boat backed off the shoal. Never used the > salvage equipment. > > Similar to the trick with a dinghy pushing on the bow. > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > ___ > > 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 > > ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Thanks for all the replies--and I agree that throwing a kedge anchor is not very practical. OTOH, without a dinghy or other anchor 'float', getting any anchor out with any scope for it to set is problematic. With a delivery crew of 2, hanging on the boom is the same--little effect. Ideal is to avoid shoals and other confusion on the water--such as mistaking a private channel entrance for government floating marks in the glaring low angle bright sun! However, near the New River inlet, even the government marks can't keep up with the shoaling changes. As others have mentioned, just getting the bow turned slightly via some horizontal pull, can often get the boat going toward deeper water. With my centerboard, I leave it down about 6 inches which helps sometimes. However, once the centerboard trunk is solidly on the bottom, its width and length provides a solid resting place especially if the shoal is hit at speed. My Beta 28 combined with a Gori 2-blade folding prop doesn't provide a lot of punch in these situations. Oh well, there is always TowBoatUS! Charlie NelsonWater Phantom36XL/kcb #77 -Original Message- From: Dennis C. via CnC-List To: CnClist Cc: Dennis C. Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2019 10:10 am Subject: Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW Buddy of mine is a salvor. He got called to free a 48 footer stuck on a shoal a few years ago. He showed up at high tide with all his air lift bags and gear. He got on the boat, put the boat in full reverse, hit the bow thruster alternating port and starboard. After a couple minutes of wiggling the bow back and forth, the boat backed off the shoal. Never used the salvage equipment. Similar to the trick with a dinghy pushing on the bow. Dennis C.Touche' 35-1 #83Mandeville, LA___ 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 ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Buddy of mine is a salvor. He got called to free a 48 footer stuck on a shoal a few years ago. He showed up at high tide with all his air lift bags and gear. He got on the boat, put the boat in full reverse, hit the bow thruster alternating port and starboard. After a couple minutes of wiggling the bow back and forth, the boat backed off the shoal. Never used the salvage equipment. Similar to the trick with a dinghy pushing on the bow. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Our system, when running into mud in Georgia, (on a 36 foot motorsailor with Sheel Keel), was to drop the dinghy, take a main halyard and small anchor, take it way out sideways to stabilize the boat, and then wait 5 hours for the tide to go out and come back up. Boat got way over, undamaged, and when afloat again, we merrily continued on our way. The fat Sheel Keel does NOT lend itself to being powered backwards, even with about 80 hp and a 23 inch prop. I managed to bury a Bermuda 40 about 100 yards from its dock after a race here on the Miles River while being "guest skipper". The board was up and it took all the tricks - heel, weight forward, crew hanging on boom, windless with anchor, and motor. Still didn't work. A curious guy in a 20 foot power boat came by and we talked him into taking our anchor way out. Then, all the other tricks did actually work. On the Chesapeake, if you haven't run aground, you have been faking it. Gary St. Michaels MD -Original Message- From: CnC-List On Behalf Of Joe Della Barba via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:26 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Joe Della Barba Subject: Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW Our ICW system worked as follows: 1. Run aground 2. Everyone off the boat, swim around and find the deep water. 3. Everyone back on and all but one sit on the boom. 4. Swing the boom out, heel over, and head towards area found in step 2. Joe Coquina C&C 35 MK I ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Our ICW system worked as follows: 1. Run aground 2. Everyone off the boat, swim around and find the deep water. 3. Everyone back on and all but one sit on the boom. 4. Swing the boom out, heel over, and head towards area found in step 2. Joe Coquina C&C 35 MK I ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
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 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
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 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
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 > 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 > ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Dennis; I thought that the process on an LST was to drop the kedge anchor on the way into the shore so it was in place already when you wanted to get the h#ll out of Dodge after unloading the grunts. Charlie; My kedge anchor/lunch hook is a Fortress FX25 on 30 feet of chain on a nylon rode. And I took it out with the dinghy and dropped it on the only occasion I actually needed it. For ICW passages I keep a copy of Active Captain running on an iPad near the helm. The hazard warnings are pretty much up to date, with the latest info updated every few days. Another source is to look at the Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net for an upcoming segment on the night before you do a passage. You can also find ACE and USCG surveys for most of the problem stretches. Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:33 PM To: CnClist Cc: Dennis C. Subject: Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW 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 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 ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
I am with Dennis on that. I don’t believe there is an anchor that you can throw by hand far enough to use for kedging. I have been in a similar situation (very long time ago) and we used a PFD and some floor planks to ferry the anchor far enough to get us off the shoal (a number of times, way too many for my liking). Even with the help of that jerry-rigged platform it wasn’t an easy thing. Marek From: CnC-List On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 22:33 To: CnClist Cc: Dennis C. Subject: Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW 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 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<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.me%2Fstumurray&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf858e8382c7644b711ab08d6c9267e8d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636917564493418804&sdata=GfaiWsNaSla8hhXRKEoUfik3lOmlYFZ9chWjqHPH8QM%3D&reserved=0> ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
Welcome back Charlie ! Sorry I have only touched a bit in Whittaker creek so no kedging yet. But I do have the danforth in the lazzarette so following along. See you in Oriental, any plans to swing by for a few Wed nights? John Conklin S/V Halcyon > On Apr 24, 2019, at 9:34 PM, Charles Nelson via CnC-List > 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://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.me%2Fstumurray&data=02%7C01%7C%7C50171fc61058425a0f4f08d6c91e40df%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636917529100139200&sdata=yfqSJN9SdGMn8ePWHdPdgA7G%2B2NnfHstHe1KV19zImE%3D&reserved=0 > ___ 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
Re: Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
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> 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 > > ___ 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
Stus-List 'Kedging anchor' for ICW
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
