- Scott
Charleston
--- Ted Duke <tedduke@usa.net> wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> SolarFry@aol.com wrote:
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> > In rocky bottoms most anchors will not hold unless
> they snag a BIG > rock.
> >
> > I had to destroy a Danforth that set too well in
> order to leave an
> > anchorage in Baja California. It completely bent
> out of shape after I > powered aft & fwd at full
> speed for an hour and kept trying to winch
> > it out with the genoa winches. It came out finally
> with a bent shank
> > and wing stuck to a piece of rock...
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> SF and gang,
>
> I anchored overnight in Smith Mountain Lake with
> beautiful
> full moon and used my oversized Danforth (14 I think
> and a
> smaller one astern to keep the fast boat wakes from
> swinging
> us too much).
>
> A REAL EXPERIENCE OVERNIGHTING, MOON LIKE YOU CAN"T
> IMAGINE! I would definitely recommend it.
>
> But, when I decided to leave in the morning I
> couldn't get
> the big anchor up. (ABOUT 30 ft of water with 140
> feet of
> line out. Finally got it moving but it weighed 100
> lbs.
> When it finally got to the surface and I was
> exhausted the
> "TREE" tilted when a limb broke water and it fell
> off. I
> now will carry an empty milk jug so I can buoy it
> and come
> back with help if it happens again, might be a 110#
> tree OR
> I MIGHT BE ANOTHER YEAR OLDER. That tree has been
> down there
> for 30 or 40 years since they built the lake I
> imagine.
>
> Ted "treehugger?" Duke
> WWPs19 #626
>
> Mountains of Virginia, heading for the confluence of
> the
> Patuxent and the Chesapeake Bay (Solomons Island)
> tomorrow
> to see if the wind is blowing, with an alternate
> plan to
> visit the Maritime Museum and drink wine and eat
> seafood.
> Actually we will do the alternate plan anyway.
>
>
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