[Rhodes22-list] anchoring obsession

[Michel Meltzer]

The problem, how much time do you have to do the "prep" work???

Never hurts, but could your time be spent getting off the lee shore,
using land to mask the storm, heading for deeper water?

BTW you can use the motor to take some of the force off the anchor, but
take it easy you do not want to run over the rode and loose both the
anchor and motor. -mjm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
> bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Peter Thorn
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:29 PM
> To: Rhodes 22 List Members
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] anchoring obsession
> 
> GlacierRon, Dave, Bill or anybody:
> 
> You have me thinking about anchors and not getting any work done  :)
> 
> Suppose I'm out in the Pamlico Sound, with it's mucky bottom in 20' of
> water
> and a squall comes up.  Would it help to use the lunch hook, a 10#
steel
> mushroom anchor with a 3/8" nylon rode, as a Kellet  shackled to the
storm
> anchor rode?   The storm anchor is FX11 Fortress with 16' of 1/4"
proof
> coil
> chain plus 3/8" three strand nylon rode?  Or, could it just make
things
> worse?
> 
> Any thoughts welcome.
> 
> PT