09-22-2011, 03:06 AM
[quote pontoonman]Thanks for the report, the Assault sounds like a winner!
If your anchors have an attachment point at the bottom end, you can rig a 20-30# section of shock cord to the top. Then the anchors can more likely be retrieved as they are pulled back upside down when the shock cord breaks.
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I've done that with claw-type anchors, but I use a round, studded anchor on my toon in the rivers. There's only one small eye for an attachment point. I could see it down there in the clear water, wedged right in the crack between two huge, square, boulders. I could have had a chance had I been able to get upstream of it, but there was just no way. Current too fast, water was about 8 feet deep.
I might could go in there and get it when the flow drops to 900 for the winter, but I don't think it'll be warm enough to swim by then!
I used to use that trick you're talking about with my anchors in salt water, only I'd use a zip-tie. When the anchor was stuck, I'd just use the outboard to break the zip tie, and bingo, anchor would come up "tail first."
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If your anchors have an attachment point at the bottom end, you can rig a 20-30# section of shock cord to the top. Then the anchors can more likely be retrieved as they are pulled back upside down when the shock cord breaks.
Pon
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I've done that with claw-type anchors, but I use a round, studded anchor on my toon in the rivers. There's only one small eye for an attachment point. I could see it down there in the clear water, wedged right in the crack between two huge, square, boulders. I could have had a chance had I been able to get upstream of it, but there was just no way. Current too fast, water was about 8 feet deep.
I might could go in there and get it when the flow drops to 900 for the winter, but I don't think it'll be warm enough to swim by then!
I used to use that trick you're talking about with my anchors in salt water, only I'd use a zip-tie. When the anchor was stuck, I'd just use the outboard to break the zip tie, and bingo, anchor would come up "tail first."
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