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.
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. Or a geoduck boat may
have a spool of chain because they anchor in currents but only up to 60
ft. But normal anchoring? No way.
Yes we have some deep water but there are also lots of good anchorages.
The tidal currents can run very strong here also and with a good blow,
you'd need a hell of a scope to hold in deep water.
Gordon