Graham Nash Posted July 31 Author Report Posted July 31 So after years of using this set up and reading the comments above about the rope getting twisted around my anchor line, (which had never happened to me), I had it happen on Wednesday and it was a bit of a pain in the proverbial! When I backed up to see where the buoy was, I noticed it was twisted round the anchor line about 5 or 6 times. I have since removed the rope between the buoy and the ring. Adam F 1 Quote
Gummage Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 Our Alderney retrieves all went awry on Wednesday too. The wind over tide thing was making everything just align unpredictably. Quote
Alcyone Posted Monday at 08:26 PM Report Posted Monday at 08:26 PM During my last visit I’ve had complete success with the Alderney set up on the retrieval proves .. however I keep on snapping the breakaway tie wraps off .. I’m not sure if this is due to anchor releases on the sea floor or going through the ring and snapping them or just cheap things from Amazon… not sure how you’d select good quality tie wraps? Im contemplating forgetting the tie wraps completely as been reading up that if you go backwards over a trapped anchor it will invariably free itself anyway and it can be dangerous having an anchor that can release due to tie wraps breaking??? Graham Nash 1 Quote
Mal Thomas Posted Monday at 08:30 PM Report Posted Monday at 08:30 PM The cable ties need to be about 6mm wide and twice wrapped through the chain inline with the top hole on the anchor shank. It works, we all do it.👍👍 Graham Nash, Jim and Alcyone 2 1 Quote
Graham Nash Posted Tuesday at 06:01 AM Author Report Posted Tuesday at 06:01 AM Don't change the anchor set up, change the cable ties. I was out a couple of weeks ago and didn't have any ties so I used some 100lb line. It worked fine. Ive now got ties on it again. Alcyone 1 Quote
great white Posted Tuesday at 07:27 AM Report Posted Tuesday at 07:27 AM 1 hour ago, Graham Nash said: Don't change the anchor set up, change the cable ties. I was out a couple of weeks ago and didn't have any ties so I used some 100lb line. It worked fine. Ive now got ties on it again. 100% agree with Graham Unless you can afford to keep replacing anchors Some cable ties online seem to have a strength rating. choose larger and stronger ones. I use three of a size that I can just get tree through the chain link. Alcyone and Graham Nash 1 1 Quote
Maverick Martin Posted Tuesday at 04:20 PM Report Posted Tuesday at 04:20 PM Similar to Charlie/Graham but I use 2 @ 7.6mm wrapped twice to the anchor. Some cable ties have release thingys on them, swerve these if you can Quote
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