Anchors

[RLWP]

In that case you may as well just head for the wier and hope. The anchor wont hold the bottom if just thrown overboard.

 

 

 

Good point. And the emphasis should be on a SOLID part of the boat. The forces exerted, should the anchor take hold, will be quite large, and could easily rip a t-stud from the front of a narrowboat.

 

And yet, that is almost always exactly why a narrowboat carries an anchor. They don't anchor out in the bay, they rarely ride out the tide mid stream. It's an insurance device for use in an emergency

 

Richard

 

Just because you heaved the anchor overboard, you can still put a loop around the tee-stud and take up slack gently

[Naughty Cal]

Just because you heaved the anchor overboard, you can still put a loop around the tee-stud and take up slack gently

 

I thought you where heading for a weir.

[RLWP]

I thought you where heading for a weir.

 

I'm not running around screaming and tearing my hair out

 

Richard

[nb Innisfree]

I have nil experience of using an anchor but thinking about it wouldn't it be better to throw anchor across the water flow so that when (or if!) it digs in then the boat will be swept round in an arc and the strain taken up progressively rather than abruptly?

 

In which case a smaller anchor would be better as enables you to throw it further to one side.

Edited March 17, 2010 by nb Innisfree