Anchoring

[Sole Man]

Hi Guys,Can anyone help.?

I have a Sea Hog Hunter and she does not have a hatch in the cabin to access the the bow for anchoring.Is there any way apart from the Alderney Ring method where i can saftely anchor from the helm.I have been looking on-line and found something called a " Lazy Line", can anyone tell me what this is?

Also what type of anchor is best for our "Inshore Marks" as I am a novice i don't want to venture too far out just yet.

 

Thanks

 

John (Sole Man)

[Coddy]

Hi John

A Lazy Line is a rope that is fixed between the bow of the boat and is long enough to reach to the cockpit. It must NEVER be long enough to reach the prop. This allows you to work in the safety of the cockpit and not on the bow of the boat.

 

I have had a Seahog Hunter and used the "Lazy line" very successfully.

 

All you need to do it attach a rope to the front of the boat, I used the towing/winching eye, and the other end just long enough to reach the middle of the deck but not long enough to get caught in the outboard prop.

 

You have your normal anchor & rope in the deck area and when you want to anchor just lower the anchor over the side. When you have reached the required length of rope out to the anchor, tie a loop into the anchor rope and clip the "Lazy line" to the loop, then let this over the side.

This keeps the anchor rope at the front of the boat and in the tide. You also have a length of anchor rope coming from the bow of the boat back down the side.

 

When you want to go, pull the free length of anchor rope back alongside the boat until you reach the clip, you can then bring the anchor up and into the boat.

 

HOWEVER there is a warning that all this work at the side of the boat may put you and the boat side onto the swell which may cause a severe rolling action, this is why many people use the "Alderney Buoy" method as well as you can motor the anchor out and recover under more controlled conditions.

 

All the above sounds more complicated than it actually is.

 

See here http://www.fishing-boats.info/bits.htm then click on anchoring or

http://www.boat-angling.co.uk/Hints_and_Ti...at_handling.htm

 

Hope this helps

 

Coddy

Edited August 11, 2008 by Coddy

[Gnasher]

i dont have a front hatch either. Dont bother with a lazy line, its easier without. The only time i use it is to hitch up to one of the lads pot bouys. il post some info later if i get time, unless someone gets their before me.

 

Danny

[Newboy]

When I had Sweethoney, I used the lazy line and I loved it, well maybe except the one time when I tried to hook it up with a potter bouy and forgot the line was on the wrong side of the boat ( my previous boat was an open boat and it didn't matter which side the line was on) and the boat nearly got turned over by the running tide,.

[Sole Man]

Thanks Guys,will try the lazy line and see how it goes

 

john