Anchor haul (wreckage!)

[gravygraham]

We were playing at doing fishing again yesterday (don't ask) and were doing a spot of wreck hopping. For the non fishy types out there (this includes includes me!) the idea is that you motor up-tide of your target wreck, drop anchor and then drift back over the wreck as you pay out the chain, and then dangle your worms in the drink.

Anyway, us bungling amateurs got it all wrong and managed to get the anchor snagged in what we presume was the wreck. I thought I was going to burn out the windlass motor, but luckily there's some sort of overload cum overheat fuse (which popped three or four times). Eventually, we hauled up this.

It's a 15kg anchor btw.

 

[Moonshiners]

I presume you dropped what ever you lifted back in the water, but if not and what you lifted is made of wood please pass on to your local marine archaeologist ASAP with location before it disintergrates. Due to the level of concretion on what appears to be the rails, I'd say it was of reasonable age and therefore importance, difficult to tell from the pics, but worth mentioning. Thanks

 

[omega2]

anchoring near wrecks

before you do it again, set your anchor to trip, i.e. make chain fast at the hole at the fluke end, bring chain along stock and fasten with light rope or heavy cable tie, so that if fouled it will break this fixing and come up backwards if your lucky. Also we give at least 6x the depth away from wreck before dropping.

 

[MarieK]

Did you get any fish??