[Public-List] Anchor rode

[Winslow Ayer]

You’ve got the greatest stories. I’m impressed with how much you get up to.

Winslow Ayer
Tinkers Damn #283

> On Mar 8, 2025, at 9:33 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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> Funny anchoring story…
> 
> So there we were… merrily at anchor up the coast here on Georgian Bay, in a normally quite secure cove.   But what ho… up came a terrific wind during the afternoon, unfortunately for us aligned just about perfectly with the north western end of the cove.   Over a couple of hours the wind built till the NW end of the cove looked like the rapids in a river, short steep waves being whipped up, and poor SURPRISE began sawing back and forth tacking at her anchor, snatching hard at it at the end of each swing.  We had the 25lb plough down with about 50’ of chain in 12’ of depth.  
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> So, we decided we needed to move over to the side of the cove to get into the shelter of the trees there.  I started the engine; Caroline went forward and began cranking the chain in on the windlass.  I was able to hold the boat still by means of rudder and throttle.  
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> As the anchor chain came up, it had a lot of ’salad’ on it (weed)  Caroline efficiently plucked gobs of weed off and cast it aside as she worked.  I could see the globs of week going by, driven by the wind… really a lot of week.  I thought that must be why we’d started dragging.
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> Then I heard Caroline yell the hook was off the bottom… then I heard it clunk into the roller.  At the same moment I saw a big magnum sized champagne bottle go by.  What the…
> 
> Caroline came back laughing.  When the CQR had come up, she found the huge bottle cross wise in the crook of the plough glued in place by clay.   It had been acting as a roller preventing the anchor from digging in.  
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> Who’d have thunk it…. 
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> 
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
> 705-527-9612
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>> On Mar 8, 2025, at 8:36 AM, Michael Grosh via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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>> Bow roller is a game changer. The second one i installed projects out a little further and has a keeper for keeping the rode from jumping off the roller. Drilled and tapped into the stemhead, fairly elegant, i think. It was the same bolt pattern for mounting, these two.  Next one will go out further yet to accomodate a Bruce or plow, I think.
>> I was chewing up the woodwork without the roller, on top of everything else.
>> 
>> Michael G
>> #220
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