[Public-List] Anchor rode

[gdinwiddie at alberg30.org]

Gord,

On an outing many years ago, things just didn't "feel right" a number of 
times during the night. I took compass measurements to lights on shore, 
and sure enough we were dragging slowly. I let out more scope and backed 
down on it. Things still didn't feel right, but I didn't seem to be 
dragging onto anyone.

When I pulled up the anchor in the morning, I found that I had dropped 
the anchor in the middle of a plastic garbage bag. The points of the 
Danforth were poking through the bag, but not far enough to get a good 
bite on the bottom.

  - George

On 3/8/25 9:33 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Who’d have thunk it….
> 
> 
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
> 705-527-9612
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 8, 2025, at 8:36 AM, Michael Grosh via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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