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![]() "Don W" wrote in message et... Ben Allez wrote: You guys must be talking about fairly small anchors. On our C27 you could easily do what you are suggesting, but I don't think I could get the Irwin's anchor up over the side into the cockpit without gashing the gelcoat. If you are close enough to the side to lift it straight up, you'd have to be hanging out over the water on a lifeline. Don W. Im on a thunderbird 26, but i think i would still retreive from the bow.... leaving anchor is usually not so stressful for me, even though i do have to retrieve by hand. if conditions are blowy, ill hall as much as i can by hand, tie off, then motor away to free the anchor from the bottom. while im motoring, i lock off the tiller then go up to the bow to finish retreieving the anchor. Its pretty easy to deploy the anchor over the side though, as long as you can resist the strong temptation to swing it round your head grapelling hook style. the day you throw it rather than drop will be the day the chain either gets hooked up on something and sends the anchor right through the side of your boat, or wraps around your leg taking you with it ;-) Shaun |
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