Anchor setting

[kid's inheritance]

I wanted to get a (sp) Battiscope to view the anchor had taken a good set prior to overnighting but they only seem to have USA distributors . So google talked about cutting the base off buckets and bolting a perspex base on.
Being (in my humble opinion ) a genius , I was held up at some roadworks and a traffic cone seemed to offer a better proposition being much closer to a battiscope design ( conical ). After purchasing a new traffic cone ,
the heavyweight base pushes off easily , leaving a lightweight cone with a perfectly indented base to take a piece of circular cut clear polycarbonate.
A healthy application of clear bathroom sealant ,removing the top 6" to allow most of the face to view and I am really pleased with the results. I am sure you all knew about this already but I had never seen one before .
I am debating whether this should be in the practical yachtie forum but , if pressed , I would have to admit one of my engineers had to actually make it as I am useless at practical things.
Rob

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I don't know about the practical boating forum but it certainly sounds as if it should be on Blue Peter and you might even be able to get some cash out of Dragons Den to commercialise it

 

[Poignard]

Clever idea but presumably it has the limitation that you have to launch the dinghy to go and hover over the spot where the anchor is lying.

My solution to the problem of being sure my anchor has set is to use a large CQR and a long chain.

 

[jfm]

You could have got your engineer to put the perspex panel into the bottom of your tender. Then you wouldn't have needed to take, erm i mean purchase , the roadcone

 

[kid's inheritance]

I don't know about the practical boating forum but it certainly sounds as if it should be on Blue Peter and you might even be able to get some cash out of Dragons Den to commercialise it

Mike,
In a very nasty period of my life , I worked with some VC's . Whilst I am sure all cannot be the same , a more crooked , smarmy, backstabbing bunch of ****** cannot exist. However , a Blue Peter badge sounds fantastic to the 11 year old still hiding somewhere in me!
Rob

 

[blueglass]

might work in the med but chances of seeing through 30 ft of english channel wouldn't be too good.
what you should build next is a small ROV to get in close to the action.

 

[Salty John]

What you call a Battiscope is a Plastimo Aquascope - available from most chandlers for £29 up to around £40.

 

[kid's inheritance]

What you call a Battiscope is a Plastimo Aquascope - available from most chandlers for £29 up to around £40.

I didn't pay that for my cone though

 

[Racingfrank7]

If you have a I phone you could all ways try a app called anchor watch.

 

[Richard10002]

Reverse on it hard. If you don't drag, it's dug in. On a yacht you can generally apply full revs which would equate to about 6 or 7 knots displacement speed.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Reverse on it hard. If you don't drag, it's dug in. On a yacht you can generally apply full revs which would equate to about 6 or 7 knots displacement speed.

You have to be a lot more circumspect about doing that in a powerful twin engined mobo especially if the seabed is a bit rocky or there other obstructions. It would be very easy to pull the anchor winch out of the foredeck going astern too hard if the anchor suddenly pulls up on a rock or other obstruction. Also, if you do get the anchor stuck under a rock or other obstruction, you might never get it out again. Personally I only go astern on one engine at minimum idle speed when setting the anchor and only after I feel the anchor biting do I engage the other engine to get it really dug in

 

[benjenbav]

Slight (well ok, total) fred drift. I spent years of my life following the Harry Potter books as our children were growing up, plus the films (of which in my humble opinion, the very best was Harry Potter and the Girls in the Tight Silk Dresses - J K Rowling and Warner Bros. may have called it something else but that's how I recall it).

Anyway, all through the books and films there is a great deal of stuff about the ceiling of the great hall at Hogwarts being magicked to be exactly like the sky above. Well, I've got news for the would-be wizards out there:

...it's just a glass roof, kids.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

...it's just a glass roof, kids.

Still mellow after last night?

 

[benjenbav]

Still mellow after last night?

Heeeeeeeeeeeey