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Yike...28lbs?? Thats craaaazy heavy. No need for that much weight. A heavier anchor doesnt mean it holds better either....just sayin.
For most sitations all I need is 15lbs to anchor my 16ft boat. If its pure and, i'll use a danforth thats much lighter.
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28lbs?!?!
I use a 7lb grapnel from west marine and it stops my 1760 no problem
Guess some of us are just stronger....
:joker:
It was literally, the last one in the aisle.
There was another guy looking at it, and talking to his wife "I don't know if it's big enough" so I Just grabbed it.
Posession is 9/10 of the law :)
That guy is the doctor whos going to fix your hernia. Lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurkeyRookie
lol after snagging the anchor, he's now the Dr who WAS going to fix it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by oaknut
Besides, anchor duties belong to the person in the front, good thing my wife is strong :)
I bought the same anchor but it must of been on sale, I don't think i paid that much, any how I fish Lake Erie on a sand bottom and my old 15 pounder was just ok but that 28 pound keeps me planted pretty good, don't let anybody tell you it's too heavy, my boats 17 feet and better heavy than too light.
I used to find (back when using a larger boat) that it was great to have two anchors, one big and the other smaller. Used the small one most of the time, sometimes both...
X2 on the bucket filled with concrete.
I use an old container that hockey pucks came in and I use an eye bolt or a piece of thick cable to make a loop with so that when it sets up you can tie a rope to it. I do make a slight cone at the top of the bucket with the concrete so that weeds come off easier when I am pulling it up.
I have two 15lbs Navy anchors and have to bury them in the sand off Grenadier Island (St Lawrence) or they do not keep our 22ft pontoon in place. I need one those sand digger anchors like the cuddies use, they hold really well in sand.
I'm a member of a boat club that operates in a large river that flows at about 7 knots. While anchoring our work boat (20 foot pontoon) in the center of the river, one of the old time members showed me a trick that worked so well i wouldn't have believed it if i hadn't seen it. He simply placed an additional small weight, maybe 2 lbs, about 4 ft in front of a standard danforth anchor that had about a 3ft length of chain between the anchor and the main line. He chucked that thing out in approx 30ft of water and that anchor stuck so hard the boat didn't move for over 45 minutes. I couldn't believe it because my own previous attempts to anchor my own 19ft boat in the same area simply did not work. I couldn't make it stick, even with 75ft of line out.
Now, I'm a diver and I was there to find missing mooring blocks. I dove down following the anchor line to the bottom where i could see how that anchor had stuck. That small weight in front caused the anchor to pull straight back rather than up, causing the flukes to dig in solid. The pontoon had to be motored up river to release the anchor. Simply proves that weight is not the key to anchoring and that a small anchor can hold back a lot of boat if its rigged right.