Anchor or Milk carton???

[Zzippy]

Thanks for your input on this subject everyone.

There was a lot of good advice there

I purchased 30 meters of cord today and filled a 2 and 4 pint milk carton with sand.The 2 pint weighs 5lb and the 4 weighs 8.5lb :confused:

I am off fishing with Specimen tomorrow so I will let you all know how much they slow the drift down.

I will try it out in about 20ft of water.The forecast looks good,just hope the fish are about.

Many thanks

Mark

[Newt]

Zzip - do yourself a favor and make sure there is at least a short length of chain attached to the anchor and the rope attached to the chain. Makes an amazing difference in how well the anchor holds if the chain is dragging so you know the anchor is firmly on the bottom.

[Simon Everett]

Hi guys,

 

right, i'm loaded for bear! Now whose going to take me on - no 2 buckshot in the right and a rifled slug in the left. Where are those snotty yachties bothering Sam Cox.

[Yakity - Yak - u.k.]

[SpeciMan]

ZZippy and I both bought a winder with just under 100 feet of nylon cord suitable for marine use from B & Q the other week. Cost about £7.50 & seems a good deal.

[Salar]

Yakity - Yak - u.k.:

 

Should the anchor get stuck, you can snatch the cord, breaking the cable tie, which means you lift the anchor from the top, closing the tiegns.

Try breaking the cable tie deliberately before you get stuck. You might be surprised how difficult it is to break a tie and it would be a pity to go to all that trouble and still lose an anchor. I use the same method on my Trophy, with three turns of very light cord (almost string) instead of cable tie. With four turns, its impossible to break out with a 160hp diesel and duoprop outdrive. I know cos I've tried...luckily the snag broke before anything else did.

 

And I agree with the anchor scope comment - you can get away with 2x in very light wind/tide, 3x is minimum, and if it was a yacht/powerboat you would be talking 3x for chain and 5x for nylon warp.

[Yakity - Yak - u.k.]

Hi Salar.

 

The cable ties are very thin low guage ones, the sort used for car wiring looms, easy to break out.

Perhaps I should have been clearer

forgot to say......tried and tested

 

[ 23. May 2005, 11:38 PM: Message edited by: Yakity - Yak - u.k. ]

[Simon Everett]

You mean crap ones then

[Zzippy]

Yakity - Yak - u.k.:

Hi Salar.

 

The cable ties are very thin low guage ones, the sort used for car wiring looms, easy to break out.

Perhaps I should have been clearer      

forgot to say......tried and tested

I bought a 3lb anchor 2 days ago,I set it up the way you sugested Yakity.It works a treat

It was tested today and got snagged,The cable ties broke and up came the anchor.

Thanks for the advice.

Mark

[SpeciMan]

Are the milk carton days now over?