Anchoring and Boat retrieval

[Chimo]

Julian

Interesting way to do it.

I think however I'll stick with the alternative that seems to avoid the risk of the line from the anchor to the shore being at risk of being seen but still run over.

Using a line off the bow to the endless loop so that the boat is free to turn with the wind and current allows the endless loop to lay on the bottom away from eyes and props that can cut the loop or snag passing boats. Experience has shown that that it seems many boats will pass between the moored boat and shore.

Pic of mooring at Sth Stradbroke for a M & G a while ago.

Cheers
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[ranmar850]

Any chance someone has found a diagram of this? I think i get it but a picture would be so much clearer.

Sounds exactly like what I have been doing for decades at Ningaloo. We leave the boat in the water there most of the time for the 2 -6 weeks of our stay as it is a difficult beach unless the tide is very low and there is no water coming over the outside reef. We have probably beefed it up a bit as is it has to be there day and night but principle is the same. We use 12 mm polypropylene, renewed every two years, running through a 50mm Stainless davit pulley with a 10mm pin attached to the end of a substantial chain and 15 kg of anchor ( This is for 5.8 to 6 metre boats--I said it was substantial.) Up near one end of the rope I have spliced a long loop in. This has your mooring rope attached. Run the other end of the rope through the pulley and tie the two ends together. You now have an endless loop, restricted only in movement by either the joining knot or spliced in loop hitting the pulley. Hook your boat up to the mooring rope and you can then pull it in and out as you please. When you have it where you want it , we tie the beach end off to a long gal star picket driven well in . This beach gets very surgey at high tide, and is subject to a lot of wind, and this has served us well.
I'll' try to draw a picture.

[ranmar850]

Ok, a quick attempt with Paint. This is obviously a heavy duty model, but you could do the same thing with your regular anchor, chain and anchor rope, all you need is a pulley from a yacht shop.I have also done this using a large stainless shackle in place of the pulley.

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[Triple]

Pic no worky

[ranmar850]

Uploaded it to Smugmug --attachments locally uploaded from PC seem to break a lot on this forum format.

[Chimo]

Ranmar850

More or less the same as my set up except i use another anchor on land or a convenient tree if one is provided.

Chimo

[ranmar850]

Yes, anything will work that you can secure the line to. Forgot the star picket one year, buried the spare off the trailer with a rope loop attached. Was a tad crusty when we dug it out three weeks later....

[Skusto]

Alright went down to bcf today, got anchor chain and the clips.

I didn't get a pulley though instead got a stainless ring to attach to the anchor chain.

Though after coming back home and reading this I'm starting to think It may get stuck as the warp and bow line could possibly try to go through the ring? Or do you think it would be right?

Will test it out in saturday when we go for the day.


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[Chimo]

rope runs better and stops better on a pulley than a ring. Hope your Sarurday goes ok though

[Skusto]

Cheers will just grab one. Also one thing chimo how long is your endless rope? I got 100m roll but I'm thinking that's a fair way! 50m from shore would you cut it in half? I can't think off the top of my head where I would need the boat that far out but don't also want to cut it if you wouldn't recommend.


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[Chimo]

I wouldn't cut it.

You can always tie it off further up the beach either with another anchor or to a tree so you may be surprised how much you can use.

If you use your normal anchor and chain at the in water end with the pulley at the end of the chain and a separate line up to the bow bollard you should be able to put enough tension on the loop that it runs mostly along the bottom away from props. This keeps it out of the way of those who insist on running their craft really close to shore

Alternatively you can leave it loose and if its silver rope it will float. Mind you some oblivious boated may still cut it.

If you join the loop with a bowline after passing it through the pulley block if that what you will use, you can tie it so you end up with a 10 m or so length that although still part of your length of line is what you can tie of to your bow bollard. I store the length of rope I use on one of those plastic hose reels. Makes it very easy to use. We also fed it out to a grounded yacht one day and they ran it up their mast so I could pull the boat over to a good heel and so get the keel out of the sand The second motor boat could then pull it clear of the sand bar.

This is how the Vag ended up at the M & G at Sth Stradbroke Island Hope this helps.

Chimo

[Skusto]

Thanks for the info, yep I made a bow line but will just keep the rope long like you said. Will look at a system to keep it bundled up well.

Thanks heaps for the info!


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