Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:33:26 +0000, Gordon wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:45:38 +0000, Gordon wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:00:17 GMT, You wrote:

What do you do with your anchor when going offshore for a week or two?
Gordon
connect it to a LOT of Chain/Line...... Duh....
On the NW coast of the US 2 000 feet of wire is a common anchor rode.
Shallow water seems to be scarce. It isn't exactly stowed, it's all on
the drum of the winch.

Casady
Boating magazine. Picture of a big spool of wire. on a foredeck.That
much 3/8 would weigh 600 lbs, not out of the question with a 40 ft or
bigger boat. How deep do you think fjords are? You can carry a couple
of thousand miles of good sized cable on a ship, but they don't anchor
with it.

Casady
This was on a sailboat? Sometimes sailboats have spools on the stern
with lots of line to tie to shore. Never on the bow.

A powerboat with with a naked deck, no stay or sail.
If it was a fishing boat, you might have seen a gillnet drum or if it
was a longliner for halibut, black cod, or sable fish there could be a
drum with wire rope up to a couple miles long.

That's not a longline. Those are forty to fifty miles long. Generally
700 lb mono. Looks like weed whacker string. You see the movie
Perfect Storm? The lady who was captain of Brown's other boat, the
Hannah Boden, wrote a book that describes longlining for swordfish in
detail.


I don't know about swordfishing but the regs control the number of
sets on a longline for the fishing I described. The lines are seldom
over a mile long.
Gordon