In article , dunky
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hi, quite new to boating, got big inflatable, dont laugh but tried anchoring
with bag of stones on rope over the side to do bit of fishing, hopeless as u
prob know in a breeze ,also heavy to lift up again, so got myself a small
folding type anchor.
bit puzzled as to what to do getting up if the spikes get stuck on bottom
junk or whatever. i see it has an eye at the bottom which i presume is for
another rope ??? so u can pull up and out hopefully from snag??can anyone
say if this is correct or do u just hope u dont get snagged??? cheers dunky

Er, please don't take this the wrong way:

You need to do a basic boating/seamanship course. One of the RYA courses
would be fine, your local harbour office will know where to find them.

However:

The stones might have worked if you had suitable chain and on the right
bottom. A concrete archangel would be better - used to control a drift over
sand for eg.

Your anchor has a tripping eye. Two ways to do it. Either attach a small
buoy on a light rope to the bottom of the anchor so that if it snags you
pick up the bouy and pull it out backwards or attach your chain to the
tripping eye and fold the anchor back so that it's the right way up then tie
the chain to the stock with a single loop of light twine that will break if
you pull *hard* and so capsize the pull.

You MUST have a length of chain next to the anchor btw even if you use a
lighter warp for your main line. The heavy chain brings the pull to the
horizintal and allows the anchor to do it's work.

Cheerio,

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