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  3. Anchoring "Technique"????????

    in Boating and Fishing Discussion

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    Another technique, while not dangerous, that does make me shake my head.

    Where the guy stops the boat over where he wants to anchor, grabs the anchor and chain and a handful of rope and slings the whole lot off the bow. Sometime he will try and back down , other times he will just wait for the anchor to somehow hold. He is oblivious to the fact that it is probably tangled up in the 10 foot of chain and will never set.

    Guaranteed I will see this numerous times a day at the achorage.

    I see it all the time. I've done it also when I first started boating. I learned the hard way. But I learned 20 feet off shore. Not 20 miles.

    The weight of the anchor and rode will hold any boat in 5 MPH winds. But as soon as it speeds up (and here in Florida that can happen real quick), you'll find out what a bad set really is.

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