Larry wrote:
Gordon wrote in
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What do you do with your anchor when going offshore for a week or two?
Gordon


We take it with us.


Jeez Larry, that sounds like a Wilburrrr reply!!
g

Gordon wrote in
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Larry wrote:
Gordon wrote in
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What do you do with your anchor when going offshore for a week or
two?
Gordon


We take it with us.


Jeez Larry, that sounds like a Wilburrrr reply!!
g


I wasn't quite sure what to expect! You should never go around without
one. But, you knew that. I don't know anyone who just goes offshore for 2
weeks without stopping somewhere for some reason.....but I'm not a
fisherman.

Having all chain rode and a powerful electric windlass kinda makes it
getting loose a moot point.... That damned thing even picked up a tree the
anchor got caught in...no sweat.

"Larry" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote in
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Larry wrote:
Gordon wrote in
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What do you do with your anchor when going offshore for a week or
two?
Gordon


We take it with us.


Jeez Larry, that sounds like a Wilburrrr reply!!
g


I wasn't quite sure what to expect! You should never go around without
one. But, you knew that. I don't know anyone who just goes offshore for
2
weeks without stopping somewhere for some reason.....but I'm not a
fisherman.

Having all chain rode and a powerful electric windlass kinda makes it
getting loose a moot point.... That damned thing even picked up a tree
the
anchor got caught in...no sweat.

You might be able to make a living hauling up trees if you can find the
right spot. Some of that lumber is quite valuable.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

You might be able to make a living hauling up trees if you can find the
right spot. Some of that lumber is quite valuable.



The two huge lakes created by dams in the Great Depression covered over
huge uncut forests because they filled too quickly to get the timber out.
Today, the stumps of those trees are lurking just under the surface of the
lakes, great for fishing, disasterous for boaters. The valleys are where
you can boat as the trees weren't tall enough to reach the water's surface.

As the lakes filled, an effort was made to cut many forests to create
navigable waterways. These huge logs were simply chained to the bottom and
anchored in the ground. Of course, that was then...this is now and the
chains have all broken loose the waterlogged underwater MOVING logs that
roam the lakes attracted by spinning propellers and underwater propulsion
units as if they were all magnetized.

The lakes are no fun for boating for these reasons. It's a real shame,
too.

On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:35:53 +0000, Larry wrote:

the stumps of those trees are lurking just under the surface of the
lakes, great for fishing, disasterous for boaters.

There are a couple of flood control lakes near Des Moines. They have
fields of standing timber, sometimes just under the surface. I was
boating on one with my 22 foot sterndrive, when a guy I let drive
headed for a marker at high speed while I was in the cuddy fetching
something. He put the prop in a tree trying to read the inch high
letters that said keep back three hundred feet. I wanted to kill him
and an unknown guy at the DNR. My family has had one of the very first
jet boats since the fifties, on a lake where nobody ever ventures into
shallow water, unless launching off a beach. Should of had it that
day. Someone told me you need three props to boat the artificial
lakes, one on the engine, a spare, and one in the shop getting
repaired.

Casady

Larry wrote:

Having all chain rode and a powerful electric windlass kinda makes it
getting loose a moot point...

If you're talking about getting it back aboard, maybe.
If you're talking about having the anchor & rode loose & flailing
against the hull, keel, & rudder, while underway offshore.... the
windlass ain't gonna help.

.... *That damned thing even picked up a tree the
anchor got caught in...no sweat.

So, you're in the Army Corps of Engineers Auxiliary?
BTW thanks from all of us that use the ICW

Fresh Breezes- Doug King