When did this become a forum for comercial fishing captains; I
thought we were talking about anchor rodes for recreational boats.
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Come on, Henry; you must be pulling our legs.
This forum is about trawlers.
Trawlers are fishboats.
Do we reject good ideas just because they are normally used on
sailboats? or tugs? or tankers?
I hope we try to adapt the best notions from wherever they're
encountered.
Even floatplanes.
Tamarack has an un-named 110 pound cast iron anchor, 100 feet of 3/8
chain and 450 feet of 5/8 double braid on a deck mounted hydraulic
drum. I might well replace the braid with wire rope if the double
braid ever needs replacing during my ownership, mainly because I would
be able to wind about thee hundred additional feet with the wire rope.
By the way, she's now a recreational boat again and was converted from
a fishboat (trawler) (seiner) to a yacht seventy-seven years ago. All
the evidence available indicates that the anchor is original to the
boat. Eighty-one years of anchoring and the only recorded dragging
occurred in 1943. I expect there were some that went unrecorded.
Yes, most of the logs are either in hand or in government archives.
So: wire rope not a bad idea for recreational boats. Depends on ...
you name it.
Terry
Tamarack
P.S. I asked the previous owner if he'd ever thought about a second
anchor in the eighteen years he used the boat on the North BC coast.
His answer: why?
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> When did this become a forum for comercial fishing captains; I
> thought we were talking about anchor rodes for recreational boats.
snip
Come on, Henry; you must be pulling our legs.
This forum is about trawlers.
Trawlers are fishboats.
Do we reject good ideas just because they are normally used on
sailboats? or tugs? or tankers?
I hope we try to adapt the best notions from wherever they're
encountered.
Even floatplanes.
Tamarack has an un-named 110 pound cast iron anchor, 100 feet of 3/8
chain and 450 feet of 5/8 double braid on a deck mounted hydraulic
drum. I might well replace the braid with wire rope if the double
braid ever needs replacing during my ownership, mainly because I would
be able to wind about thee hundred additional feet with the wire rope.
By the way, she's now a recreational boat again and was converted from
a fishboat (trawler) (seiner) to a yacht seventy-seven years ago. All
the evidence available indicates that the anchor is original to the
boat. Eighty-one years of anchoring and the only recorded dragging
occurred in 1943. I expect there were some that went unrecorded.
Yes, most of the logs are either in hand or in government archives.
So: wire rope not a bad idea for recreational boats. Depends on ...
you name it.
Terry
Tamarack
P.S. I asked the previous owner if he'd ever thought about a second
anchor in the eighteen years he used the boat on the North BC coast.
His answer: why?
