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Ray

Catigale wrote:Throwing a mushroom off the stern

1. Anchor sail. Costs. Haven't tried
2. Mushroom. Haven't tried. Tried grappling hook off the bow or stern, found ineffective. Also not good on wind/current shifts.
3. Rolling hitch from rode to rear putting the boat on an angle. Haven't tried, reported works. Alternative, Rolling hitch making a bridle.
4. A Bucket tied off the bow. Slows down the oscillations making it a non-issue for me.

FWIW

The problem in useing the Mushroom is you are going to drag back and forth as the stern swings and foul any sea grass that helps underwater sea growth. This also happens with Longer Chain length on main anchor.
I am not saying it's bad but just watch were you put it and the effects it may do.
Dave

Well I guess since I use a riding sail that make me a tree hugger according to Dave's information. Well how about that that next thing you know I be driving a hybrid car instead of my jeep Rubicon. Na never just jerking your chain and speaking of the one on my main anchor it is double long.

WHRoeder wrote:A Bucket tied off the bow. Slows down the oscillations making it a non-issue for me.

I was going to suggest just tying a bucket off the stern to slow down the stern swinging - a small sea anchor/drift sock would probably do the same thing, and you wouldn't have to worry about seagrass, tangles, etc. Since it wasn't technically "anchored" to the seafloor, you'd also still track around if heavier waves/winds came up quickly while you were cozy-cozy. This idea is often used on fishing boats on the flats to keep the boat positioned when anchored up fishing a hot spot - well, the "power pole" has since taken the popular spot...but it is an option that leaves the back of the boat free for storms and still slows down wind-drift - would also probably help to keep yer boat pointed into waves (if there were lots of them, that is).

I thought about using my drift anchor that way but decided against it because of boat in popular spots like to come to close to our boats out of fasination with them. I figure one would wind up snagging my drift anchor.

Y'know, RoadSoldier, you could just hang a bucket around your neck and tie yourself to the back of the boat, and if the bucket's heavy enough...

WHRoeder wrote:*Rolling hitch from rode to rear putting the boat on an angle. Haven't tried, reported works. Alternative, Rolling hitch making a bridle.

I tried this Saturday. We were "sailing" quite a bit on anchor. It seemed to work fairly well. Probably wise to keep fins up, especially X's with the centerboard to catch on.
Now I'm thinking a Winter project is to install a cleat somewhere by the bow stanchion.


--Russ

You can just use your winch of course...

vizwhiz wrote:Y'know, RoadSoldier, you could just hang a bucket around your neck and tie yourself to the back of the boat, and if the bucket's heavy enough...

Due to recent near death experiment here at Redneck Skunk Works (RSW) testing bucket idea with our CEO, Head Scientist, and Gene Pig all being me of course, RSW is making the following change to our Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in testing requests by fellow bloggers. The major change is the request must have a extremely high Totally Hilarious (TH) to Possible Death (PD) ratio show by this formula TH/PD where the TH must equal 97% and the PD cannot be more than 3%.

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RSW Out

...and all tests must be verified by the Albany NY Mac Testing bureau - all payments made in bacon and peaches

Yep need lots of bacon here to buy new blue buckets to hold the ever increasing white bucket.

Blue buckets White buckets Bacon ( not kosher!) I gotta tell you that you guys lost me three posts ago

Ray

NiceAft wrote:Blue buckets White buckets Bacon ( not kosher!) I gotta tell you that you guys lost me three posts ago

Ray

Looks like someone father didn't have that special talk with him when he was younger. Dang man he could at least given you a Playboy magizine.