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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:19:38 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote: Jessica B wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:27:05 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: Ok, so I have a sailing question about anchors... obviously there are different anchors for different situations, but you don't necessarily know what you're going to find when you go someplace? So, how do you decide what anchor to take with you? Clearly, as you said, you can take two (or three?) but they must eventually get kind of heavy... I guess there must be guides, but what if you're going to visit several places and they're all different? Hopefully, this question is good enough for Justin! Sheesh... Take them all! And in the end, weight counts. Hi Richard, Well, I guess I was concerned that it would be alot of space and weight. Aren't there anchors that overlap as far as use goes? Yes on space and weight. The Rodes especially. I have three now - 250 to 300 feet each. AND chain (need more of that still) That's ALOT of rope!! You must have a pretty big boat! Do tell... Not really for the overlap... A Danforth is good with mud and sand. But it's not great in rocks. Like Wilbur pointed out, a Herrschoff pattern (and a heavy Navy pattern) work well in rocky crags. Fishermen use a mushroom type, but I have no use for that on a sailboat. I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) |
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Jessica B wrote:
I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote: Jessica B wrote: I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out: http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf Cheers, Bruce |
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Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out: http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf Cheers, Bruce Jeez, Bruce! Nothing smaller than 500 pounds??? -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote: Bruce wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out: http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf Cheers, Bruce Jeez, Bruce! Nothing smaller than 500 pounds??? One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched :-) Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course. Cheers, Bruce |
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Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Bruce wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out: http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf Cheers, Bruce Jeez, Bruce! Nothing smaller than 500 pounds??? One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched :-) Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course. Cheers, Bruce That outta do it! -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:58:27 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote: Bruce wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Bruce wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Hey Bruce! Send me one of your anchors? If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out: http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf Cheers, Bruce Jeez, Bruce! Nothing smaller than 500 pounds??? One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched :-) Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course. Cheers, Bruce That outta do it! Years ago there was a little, sort of unofficial, marina started up at Langkawi, Malaysia. As the "marina" was on the west side of the island and pretty well open to the west the blokes that started it cast up some 1 meter cubes of concrete with a big metal ring on the top. Considerable effort was expended to cast these things and get them all arranged in the anchorage. At Last! Typhoon proof moorings! However, as soon as the first guy drug up his anchor and paid the tariff to moor to one of these titanic blocks the problems started. It turned out that the one meter moorings were set in about 4 meters of water.... in an area with 2.5 meter tides. As most of the ocean going cruising boats draw at least 6 feet there was a bit an interference when the tide went out. The solution was to hire a big water pump and spend a couple of weeks jetting the blocks deeper into the mud, and of course that costs money... so they raised the price to moor which caused an immediate exodus. Cheers, Bruce |
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"Jessica B" wrote in message
... On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:19:38 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:27:05 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: Ok, so I have a sailing question about anchors... obviously there are different anchors for different situations, but you don't necessarily know what you're going to find when you go someplace? So, how do you decide what anchor to take with you? Clearly, as you said, you can take two (or three?) but they must eventually get kind of heavy... I guess there must be guides, but what if you're going to visit several places and they're all different? Hopefully, this question is good enough for Justin! Sheesh... Take them all! And in the end, weight counts. Hi Richard, Well, I guess I was concerned that it would be alot of space and weight. Aren't there anchors that overlap as far as use goes? Yes on space and weight. The Rodes especially. I have three now - 250 to 300 feet each. AND chain (need more of that still) That's ALOT of rope!! You must have a pretty big boat! Do tell... Not really for the overlap... A Danforth is good with mud and sand. But it's not great in rocks. Like Wilbur pointed out, a Herrschoff pattern (and a heavy Navy pattern) work well in rocky crags. Fishermen use a mushroom type, but I have no use for that on a sailboat. I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Geeze woman. Weren't you paying attention when the guy on rec.boats was trying to teach you about anchors? -- Waldo |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:13:26 -0500, "Waldo" wrote:
"Jessica B" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:19:38 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:27:05 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: Jessica B wrote: Ok, so I have a sailing question about anchors... obviously there are different anchors for different situations, but you don't necessarily know what you're going to find when you go someplace? So, how do you decide what anchor to take with you? Clearly, as you said, you can take two (or three?) but they must eventually get kind of heavy... I guess there must be guides, but what if you're going to visit several places and they're all different? Hopefully, this question is good enough for Justin! Sheesh... Take them all! And in the end, weight counts. Hi Richard, Well, I guess I was concerned that it would be alot of space and weight. Aren't there anchors that overlap as far as use goes? Yes on space and weight. The Rodes especially. I have three now - 250 to 300 feet each. AND chain (need more of that still) That's ALOT of rope!! You must have a pretty big boat! Do tell... Not really for the overlap... A Danforth is good with mud and sand. But it's not great in rocks. Like Wilbur pointed out, a Herrschoff pattern (and a heavy Navy pattern) work well in rocky crags. Fishermen use a mushroom type, but I have no use for that on a sailboat. I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...) Geeze woman. Weren't you paying attention when the guy on rec.boats was trying to teach you about anchors? I've only looked at that section. There's way to many posts to sort through. I thought I was Capt. Wil??? |
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#10
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Try my boat... http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26 -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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