On 26-Sep-12 6:19 PM, James Poulakis wrote: Depending on where you sail, you can experience all kinds of bottoms when you anchor. The best are sand, but unless you are lucky enough to be in such an area, you normally have to live with: - Mud - Weed - Rocks Both mud and weeds will add a lot of weight to your anchor when you try and retrieve it. My answer was to have a long handled brush - normally tied to a shroud - with which I could clean the anchor and the chain, while it was still in the water, before putting it on deck. It is always good practice to put a buoy on the anchor with a line to the anchor crown. Then, if your anchor should be caught under a chain, or other debris on the bottom, you can pull the anchor out by using the line attached to the crown, and pull it out backwards. An alternative to that is to have some sort of large diameter ring that you can put on your anchor rode. You attach another line to the ring, and let the ring sink down to your anchor. Now you have another line attached to your anchor, which allows you to pull it backwards, away from the debris, and retrieve it again. Anchoring is an art; not a science. The more often you anchor the more experienced - and the more careful - you become. May your anchors always hold during the blow. Connie

This has been a great thread. I'll be experimenting with mesh bags, Christmas ornament tubs, and snatch blocks for the rest of the season. Thanks to all you guys for relating your ideas, especially Daniel who got this thing started.

Jim M17 "Spirit"

On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:07 PM, leyake@juno.com wrote:

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Haven't had much crud on the rode where I sail. Sometimes the anchor will bring up a scoop of mud but that comes off with a few dunks over the side. Glad we don't have the crud that some of you guys have to deal with.

---------- Original Message ---------- From: James Poulakis <picfo@comcast.net> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Anchoring Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:27:06 -0700

... and what do you do about the crud that comes up with the rode?

Jim M-17 "Spirit"

On Sep 26, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Joe Murphy wrote:

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Larry, Where on the bow pulpit do you attach the snatchblock? I gather you're not concerned with the stress of the anchor line on the pulpit? Thanks, Joe SeaFrog M17 ----- Original Message ----- From: bownez@juno.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:06 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Anchoring

Hiya Larry,

I liked your input on anchoring Looks like I'll be buying a snatch block for my M17......

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