[Rhodes22-list] Deploying anchor from cockpit

[Rick Lange]

For many years the GBI factory standard anchor has been a fluke design of
about 15 pounds that hangs by its stock from a bracket attached to the bow
pulpit.  The anchor shank is shackled to the hull.

Mine is rubber coated in case it needs to be brought aboard, but I've never
had to.  I've beat into 5 foot waves and the anchor never budged in its
bracket.

I've also dropped my anchor facing 3-5 foot waves by kneeling or sitting in
the bow pulpit to keep from falling over.  Everything is right there in
easy reach--the anchor, the rode locker and the bow cleat.  Reaching over
the pulpit while kneeling or sitting with the rail supporting your armpit
gives you all the leverage needed to easily lower or raise the anchor in a
rolling sea.

Regards,

Rick Lange


On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:49 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> Different strokes…
>
> Personally, I never ’slowly lower’ my anchor.  I do slowly let out the
> rode after the anchor is on the bottom, to avoid creating a pile of rode on
> top of the anchor.
>
> I can’t quite figure out how or why one sits in or on the bow pulpit.
>
> Having spent 4 years in the Coast Guard (albeit almost 50 years ago), I
> can say that it was my experience that coasties are just people like
> everyone else, and there are probably a few marionettes among them.  It’s
> not really their job to keep fools off the water.  Good thing too, since
> that would destroy the pleasure boating industry.
>
> —Peter
>
> > On Nov 2, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Rick Lange <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > According to
> https://www.boaterexam.com/navigationrules/anchoring-tips.aspx
> >
> >
> >   - Slowly lower the anchor *from the bow*, rather than the stern, to
> >   avoid capsizing or swamping.
> >
> > There are no marianettes in the CG, just dedicated public servants
> keeping
> > us safe or keeping fools off the water.
> >
> > If you have an R22, you have invested in a secure and comfortable
> anchoring
> > platform--a wide, flat unobstructed bow deck with a bow pulpit you can
> > easily sit in.  Use it!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick Lange
> >
>