[Rhodes22-list] anchoring obsession

[Mary Lou Troy]

Peter,
My purely theoretical take on this - having never used a kellet, is that it 
might help - particularly if the winds were not very steady or if there was 
wave action.

Have you used the mushroom much as a lunch hook?

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Ft. Washington, PA / Swan Creek, MD



At 04:29 PM 1/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>GlacierRon, Dave, Bill or anybody:
>
>You have me thinking about anchors and not getting any work done  :)
>
>Suppose I'm out in the Pamlico Sound, with it's mucky bottom in 20' of water
>and a squall comes up.  Would it help to use the lunch hook, a 10# steel
>mushroom anchor with a 3/8" nylon rode, as a Kellet  shackled to the storm
>anchor rode?   The storm anchor is FX11 Fortress with 16' of 1/4" proof coil
>chain plus 3/8" three strand nylon rode?  Or, could it just make things
>worse?
>
>Any thoughts welcome.
>
>PT
>
>__________________________________________________
>Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list