Rick, The trip line need be no longer than slightly more than the water depth if you tie one end to the anchor and the other to a float. Then there is only one line to pull in, and if the anchor needs 'tripping', then the rode is used to pull the boat to the float. CKA M-17 #604 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Langer" <farreach@optonline.net> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:06 AM Subject: M_Boats: Connie's story and Bruce anchor
Hi Connie,
Well that was a perfectly normal and uneventful story of raising your Compac 16 off the trailer. Did you lose the boat and trailer connection before you started restoration or was it after you finished? It was good that you backed the boat into the garage, so you ended up with the boat in the garage and the trailer outside. If it were the other way around the boat would have ended up in the driveway and the trailer tongue, going through the wall, would have messed up your well organized desk When you showed me your boat you blocked up the stern before we got in and I thought to myself, that's strange, but now I know why you did it.
On a different subject, I just purchased a Bruce type anchor (11#, smallest they had, 8' of 3/8" chain) from Defender. I have 130' of used, but good 1/2" anchor rode which I have spiced a 1/2" thimble. I know this anchor is a little heavy and the chain is as heavy or heavier than the anchor, but it ought to keep the angle low. I plan to store it in the forward compartment where there's plenty of room and where the weight will help. It will be my second anchor and used in contingencies and special anchoring situations.
My initial question concerns a hole in the anchor at the opposite end from where the chain attaches. Is this hole for a trip line to help disengage the anchor? If that's the case, how do you use it? It seems to me that two lines from the boat to the anchor would soon become one very twisted line.
One more change of subject. I like the idea of keeping your fuel in one quart bottles. What kind of bottles do you use?
Thanks,
Rick M15 #337 Hudson River _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats