I recently bought a home with shared access which rarely gets used.
I am on a 700 acre lake.
I would like to anchor my 19' open bow in waist deep water ( very
shallow along shoreline)
I was thinking of 2 land anchors and ski buoy markers.
Any suggestions?

crystalguy wrote:
I recently bought a home with shared access which rarely gets used.
I am on a 700 acre lake.
I would like to anchor my 19' open bow in waist deep water ( very
shallow along shoreline)
I was thinking of 2 land anchors and ski buoy markers.
Any suggestions?


Yes, cover it up extremely well and let it blow with the wind on a
single anchor. Run a chain through some 5-gallon paint buckets filled
with concert and large eye bolts attached to a line on a single buoy.
And an snap fastener to the bow eye with some more line past that and
attached to a forward cleat.

On 15 Oct 2006 17:46:53 -0700, "crystalguy"
wrote:

I recently bought a home with shared access which rarely gets used.
I am on a 700 acre lake.
I would like to anchor my 19' open bow in waist deep water ( very
shallow along shoreline)
I was thinking of 2 land anchors and ski buoy markers.
Any suggestions?

A really simple (and popular) system is called a haulout. It is like
an old fashioned clothesline with a continuous loop of rope going
through a pulley (aka block). The pulley is located in the water,
somtimes connected to a buoy and anchor, sometimes to a driven pipe or
piling.

The land end can be anything solid, sometimes a tree or rock,
sometimes a pipe driven into the ground.

The boat is brought into shore to unload, and is then tied to the
haulout loop and pulled back into deep water. Reverse the process to
bring it back in and load up. Use a stainless or galvanized pulley
and keep it well greased.