Anchor in front garden

[LittleSister]

I have mine in the back garden (for storage, and out of public sight). Does that count?

From memory:
1 medium-large CQR and one medium CQR. IIRC one is genuine, the other not, and one has a goodly length of chain attached, but I can't remember which.
1 medium-largish Danforth type.
100ft(?) of 8mm chain with a further long length of thick anchor plait attached.

There's also a Fisherman's type, painted, but I think that's in the shed.

(Some or all of these may eventually appear on the for sale section, but only if Santa brings me a Round Tuit next Monday.)

Of course, the universe being what it is, none of these are a particularly suitable in size/type/shape to be the back-up anchor I could do with for my current boat.

 

[michael_w]

My garden has got lurking in it:
35lb CQR
10 kg Bruce
25 kg Delta - rescued from a marina skip, needs re-galvanizing. One day I'll have a boat that suits.
Large Fortress, suitable as a hurricane anchor for a battleship.
2.65m inflatable dinghy
Spare wheel for a Flying Fifteen trailer and mast support for same.
5 bicycles
and SWMBO's plants.

 

[fredrussell]

Bloody great Danforth in my front garden in the hope that some ne’er-do-well will make off with it.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I have a bent Bruce copy as a decoration in the corner of my garden. It was removed from my last boat when we bought it - some muppet had drilled a hole in the shank to secure it in the bow roller with a pin - unsurprisingly, that is where it was bent.

 

[Roberto]

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I had an old length of anchor chain, a lump of rust actually, I asked the marina where should I dispose of it, they answered just leave it in that corner of the street. I did and the following day it was gone
I learnt some people add it to concrete mix to get a heavier block for permanent moorings.

 

[johnalison]

My wife has always fancied having a garden anchor and coos with appreciation every time we see one suitable. This close to London, it would have to be concreted in if we intended to keep it.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

I have mine in the back garden (for storage, and out of public sight). Does that count?

From memory:
1 medium-large CQR and one medium CQR. IIRC one is genuine, the other not, and one has a goodly length of chain attached, but I can't remember which.
1 medium-largish Danforth type.
100ft(?) of 8mm chain with a further long length of thick anchor plait attached.

There's also a Fisherman's type, painted, but I think that's in the shed.

(Some or all of these may eventually appear on the for sale section, but only if Santa brings me a Round Tuit next Monday.)

Of course, the universe being what it is, none of these are a particularly suitable in size/type/shape to be the back-up anchor I could do with for my current boat.

After good service it's a cruel world for has been anchors .

They often find themselves located on roundabouts in coastal areas . Surely a proper rehoming programme is needed.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Nothing in tiny front garden except 50m of rusty 8mm I cant be bothered to drag through house and living room to get it out back. However have unfolded folding anchor and oar on front wall of the big shed for my freezer, dryer and tools

 

[onesea]

Front:
Sailing dinghy complete, additional Mast & Boom (different boats).
Back:
2 anchors (maybe 3),
Propeller,
Outboard,
I will not start on bits and boats etc in sheds and garages.

I need to start selling not acquiring.

 

[14K478]

Local beach launching fishermen have been hauling up interesting antique and large old anchors for years.
One guy I know just leaves them by his shed/boat for visitors/punters/tourists to search him out.
He sold one a couple of years ago for around £1000. Certainly must have been a job to lift it for transport.

Go back a hundred and fifty years or so and the same local fishermen would have manned a beach yawl and rowed it out to a collier brig dragging her anchor and claimed salvage.

Some of those Aldeburgh anchors must have made several cycles - ship loses anchor, fisherman finds anchor, beach company (fishermen) raise anchor, store it on the beach and row it off to the next punter...

 

[14K478]

John Munns (surveyor, in mid survey) called up to me through the forehatch "You've got another one here!" So I had; a 75lb CQR copy that I had completely forgotten about!

 

[Daedelus]

Better than 60m anchor chain in garage together with an old genoa that no-one seemed to want and a fair bit of netting in the garden although that's to keep the bloody pigeons off the produce.

 

[Daydream believer]

Many east coast sailors will have seen the lighthouse in the harbour marina at Goes in the Netherlands. I first saw it in 1972 & thought is enchanting.
I have wanted to build a copy in my front garden for years. Complete with flashing light & a door in oak. The wife has threatened divorce if I even think about it. I could put it on a steel base ( like a sort of pallet) & pass a steel threaded rod up the middle to act as a pre stressing bar. That way I could always pick it up & sell it. I reckon someone would pay £10K for it as a garden ornament if it had a WC; complete with some electrics & the proper copper frame & glass on top as per the original.
Wife cannot be persuaded
Fl (3) W 10s. 1M

 

[johnalison]

Many east coast sailors will have seen the lighthouse in the harbour marina at Goes in the Netherlands. I first saw it in 1972 & thought is enchanting.
I have wanted to build a copy in my front garden for years. Complete with flashing light & a door in oak. The wife has threatened divorce if I even think about it. I could put it on a steel base ( like a sort of pallet) & pass a steel threaded rod up the middle to act as a pre stressing bar. That way I could always pick it up & sell it. I reckon someone would pay £10K for it as a garden ornament if it had a WC; complete with some electrics & the proper copper frame & glass on top as per the original.
Wife cannot be persuaded
Fl (3) W 10s. 1M

Southern softies may not have noticed that the Goes original was, and maybe still is, a WC.

 

[Daydream believer]

Southern softies may not have noticed that the Goes original was, and maybe still is, a WC.

It was certainly a WC in the 70s. Hence my comment about installing one now. Lots would like a WC somewhere in a lage garden. It should not be hard to run a drain to a suitable manhole, or cesspit. Flashing light when in use would be a novelty.

 

[pyrojames]

Port and starboard nav lights on the gate ports to guide me in to the drive.

 

[Daydream believer]

Port and starboard nav lights on the gate ports to guide me in to the drive.

And do you still bang into one on a windy day- just as practice for when you are on the boat?

 

[14K478]

Port and starboard nav lights on the gate ports to guide me in to the drive.

IALA “A” or “B”?

 

[Daydream believer]

IALA “A” or “B”?

I wonder if there is an arrow on the drive to show direction of navigation. Otherwise it would mean nothing.

 

[rogerthebodger]

I don't have a anchor in my garden but I do have a 15 meter and a 10 meter aluminium mast and boom in my side garden