C. Marin Faure, I put a line to the bottom of my delta and used it all the time to free the anchor from the bottom. Usually, the admiral would motor up to the line, I would get it, pull on it, feel the anchor come free, and then use my Maxwell to recover the chain rode. Per Maxwell, my windless would last "forever" with this practice. There were two times when pulling on the retrieval line did NOT free the anchor. Then, i used the wildcat on the Maxwell to retrieve my chain, and the chain from my "neighbor's" boat. Do not know how we became entangled but was grateful the wildcat did the work. Lee Ankara Turkey From: "Faure, Marin" <marin.faure@boeing.com> Date: August 4, 2005 18:36:20 EEST To: "trawler list" <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Subject: Re: T&T: Snubbers for all seasons and boats > Getting these anchors up and stowed typically takes half a day and neighborly cooperation. With no swell to help loosen these anchors when the rode is hauled in to an "up and down" condition, it takes brute force of the boat and engines to loosen the deeply embedded anchors. I'm curious if attaching a line to the bottom of the anchor before it was deployed and putting a float on the end of this line would make it any easier to retrieve these anchors. Instead of trying to pry the anchor out of the bottom with the rode you could pull it backwards out of the bottom with the line with perhaps much less resistance. Or is this one of those great theories that doesn't work as advertised in practice?