Anchor size and type for F36

DOUBLE R · Post by **DOUBLE R** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:32 am

[quote="alexander38"..and Jeff now owns that detla..witch is for a 41' boat...I went with a S/S for a 58' 35 lbs I think...on 30' of chain and 5/8" road..[/quote]

His wife is gonna love hauling that stuff up!!!

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:04 pm

DOUBLE R wrote:[quote="alexander38"..and Jeff now owns that detla..witch is for a 41' boat...I went with a S/S for a 58' 35 lbs I think...on 30' of chain and 5/8" road..

His wife is gonna love hauling that stuff up!!![/quote]

Wife is on the helm when we set/haul the hook, She's real good at the helm and keeping on station and backing her down. And the Goode winch works great, but pullin' that 30' of chain and hook sucks in the mornin' I can't wait for that old thing to die....but I think it's going to be on the bow for awhile...

and personally I found it in-gentlemanly to see a Lady pulling in and anchor while the hubby sets on his butt .... but hey that's just the Texan in me...

DOUBLE R · Post by **DOUBLE R** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:03 am

Oh, I thought you said Jefflaw had the anchor and chain now.

Depends on who is the Captain, I guess. but Thirty feet of chain? Why?

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:46 am

Jeff has the hook, chain and rode stayed with me.

30' of chain my theory, of anchoring is I lay the hook out and the chain then some rode while backing down, then hold road till taught then lay more till I get around 9 to 1 out then the chain and rode are laying on the bottom (soft sticky gray clay 90% of the time) I then back down to set the delta hard in the mud. It's worked well for us sure far. We spent the night at the concrete ship's one and a good punch of Boomers came in that night and whipped up the anchorage real good I seen a few guys have to get fired up and use engines to hold, my hook never dragged an inch.

DOUBLE R · Post by **DOUBLE R** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:43 pm

SOUNDS LIKE YOU REALLY DIG EM IN. Down here , a danforth in sand will hold up nicely.

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:45 pm

dig it in deep...then hit the CROWN....

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:06 pm

prowlersfish wrote:16lb Danforth works well for me

I have to correct myself I have a Danforth S1600 that is a 25 lb anchor , my spare is a Danforth 12H hight tensile 12lb anchor that has a higher holding power ( so they say )

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Sat May 05, 2012 8:20 am

http://www.carlspackler.com/sounds/110.mp3

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sat May 05, 2012 6:37 pm

rossjo wrote:
http://www.carlspackler.com/sounds/110.mp3

didn't know Paul painted his boat....