thought I'd share a little adventure my wife and I had a couple of weeks ago. We finally got our boat back from the shop after two weeks of unsuccessful repairs and we were anxious to get out on the water. We left our dock at Cap Sante Marine in Kenmore and motored out to Bastire University area. We pulled in to about 85 feet of water and I let the anchor out. (hand over hand till I got to the rope part of the rode)
We spent all afternoon on the boat just reading books and enjoying the sunshine. Around 6pm we decided to head on back, but when I went to pull in the anchor I found us alarmingly stuck! I pulled it in as far as I could and then tied it back off. I decided to try putting the boat in reverse and pulling us back out but to my alarm after 50 feet of moving in reverse the rode was even tighter then before. I was pretty stumped. My wife suggested pulling the boat into deeper water but we agreed that wouldn't make any difference, but I thought of trying shallower water.
We had the boat in reverse for 3/4 of a mile to come up to a point I was familiar with just north of the park. The point comes up to 12 feet. But when we got there the rode was just as tight as before. I was about ready to cut the rode and just buy a new anchor assembly when I told my wife to put it in forward. As we inched forward I pulled in the rode as quick as I could to take up the slack when I reached the chain I knew we might be on to something. I was able to pull it up to within a few feet of the surface and was finally able to see what we had snagged on: a 2 inch thick cable line! I tied off the rode and grabbed the boat hook, which I used to pull the cable up off of the anchor and let us swing free.
Man! what an ordeal! We had some great team work on that adventure, and I think we handled it about as well as possible given the sircumstances. I'm guessing it was some old industrial cabeling that had simply been discarded and not reported, I figure its about one in a million that we caught it!
But thanks to the ordeal, we finally have a boat name we agree on: Anchors' Away
Happy Boating!
We spent all afternoon on the boat just reading books and enjoying the sunshine. Around 6pm we decided to head on back, but when I went to pull in the anchor I found us alarmingly stuck! I pulled it in as far as I could and then tied it back off. I decided to try putting the boat in reverse and pulling us back out but to my alarm after 50 feet of moving in reverse the rode was even tighter then before. I was pretty stumped. My wife suggested pulling the boat into deeper water but we agreed that wouldn't make any difference, but I thought of trying shallower water.
We had the boat in reverse for 3/4 of a mile to come up to a point I was familiar with just north of the park. The point comes up to 12 feet. But when we got there the rode was just as tight as before. I was about ready to cut the rode and just buy a new anchor assembly when I told my wife to put it in forward. As we inched forward I pulled in the rode as quick as I could to take up the slack when I reached the chain I knew we might be on to something. I was able to pull it up to within a few feet of the surface and was finally able to see what we had snagged on: a 2 inch thick cable line! I tied off the rode and grabbed the boat hook, which I used to pull the cable up off of the anchor and let us swing free.
Man! what an ordeal! We had some great team work on that adventure, and I think we handled it about as well as possible given the sircumstances. I'm guessing it was some old industrial cabeling that had simply been discarded and not reported, I figure its about one in a million that we caught it!
But thanks to the ordeal, we finally have a boat name we agree on: Anchors' Away
Happy Boating!