capnsensible
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Perfect anchors if you wish to stop and fish for a bit in a small boat. Also diving from something like a rhib. Easy to recover and stow.
The perfect anchor, a gift.
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Wansworth
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Local fishermen also make grappletype anchours out of rebar
Mark-1
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They have the advantage that if they get stuck you reverse against them, the rebar bends and you get your anchor back.
Good design, IMHO.
greeny
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Neeves
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Common place, or varients, in Australia over coral reefs or rocky anchorages like Tasmania. Depends on the size of the rebar (some are made from 'sort of' glorified wire) - but with out much effort they will straighten, and simply pull out without damaging (much) the coral and no damage to rocks. In Korea they are really upmarket and weld 'flukes' to the ends and make 4 fluked fishermen's style - and can be large - 'man' sized.
They are supplied in Oz as a straight item, 4 pieces of wire, which you bend to shape when you use them. They tend to be small and focussed at the small run-about fisherman market. Being 4 pieces of straight wire they are easy to store.
If you need to abandon - they are hardly expensive.
I confess, I've never used one. I'm nervous being close to either coral or rocks
.However - as so many commercial fishermen use such devices, based on rebar or wire, with or without welded flukes, and are common place on the bows of local Asian boats - they must work - to a greater or lesser extent.
Jonathan
Chiara’s slave
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Exactly what you do on a beach. We used to do it with one of the kids spades. If you wonder why theres a yellow plastic spade in the port ama when my youngest child is 28, now you know. Plastic spades don’t rust, and it’s in there with the kite.
GEM43
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Use the kindly gifted grapnel to anchor the lawn mower whilst you enjoy your tea and biscuits. Use one of these to anchor the dink:
Mantus Stainless Steel Dinghy Anchor
Mantus Stainless Steel Dinghy Anchor
Mark-1
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TBH, I've never needed a dedicated anchor in the dink. On a beach I bury an oar or a stick or a rock or carry it up a bit, if I'm fishing with the kids (rare) I take the 2kg lunch hook.
It also occurs to me the Grapnel is going to attract sand and mud like nothing else, all those nooks and crannies. A pet hate of mine.
My heart says cable tie the flukes and use it as an angel so I smile every time I use it. My head says hang it in the shed, freecycle or bin.
That small bugel looks purpose made to go through the bottom of an inflatable. Quite cool for a rigid dinghy.
Boathook
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I wonder what her next gift will be. Some nice looking cord from Lidl to go with her earlier present .... ?
Mark-1
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You have a spy camera on my garage?
^^^^ part two of my gift.
I *do* have a use for that.
capnsensible
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capnsensible
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Drifting slightly back to op anchor. I used to use one of these tied to one end of a suitable length of line and a fender on the other to simulate a mooring buoy. You can spend a fun hour or more practising sailing up to it without using the engine to perfect the technique prior to sailing onto a real one.