I'm not convinced you can throw an anchor far enough to kedge. You wouldn't have a lot of scope and you'd be pulling up rather than horizontally.
I've always thought that kedging was best accomplished by hauling an anchor well away from the boat with a dinghy or floating it out on a PFD. I was on an old LST in the Navy. After we beached the ship bow first, we would lower a stern anchor down and tie it to a couple of large timbers tied between two Higgins Papa boats. (A Papa boat is the one usually shown in Marine storming the beach films where the ramp drops down and the Marines charge ashore.) The Papa boats would carry the anchor out a hundred yards or so and a bosun mate would cut the line with an axe. Then we'd pull the ship off the beach with the stern anchor. Now THAT's kedging. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 8:35 PM Charles Nelson via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > I recently moved my boat from CRW to New Bern, NC via the ICW. Several > times we ran aground either because skipper error or shifting shoals that > are impossible to keep up with unless you sail in them often. > > Not surprisingly our Fortress 11 was pretty useless in grabbing the bottom > when thrown as far as I could manage! They need to be dropped and then > backed down on to grab the bottom--pulling them in after a toss just > doesn't allow them to properly set. > > My crew suggested I get about a 5 lb. danforth that can be thrown pretty > far but that will set better than a Fortress that tends to skip along the > bottom in those circumstances. > > My question for the list is what 'throwable' anchor for this situation > would you recommend? > > Charlie Nelson > Water Phantom > 1995 C&C 36XL/kcb > See situations would you recommends? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPadthrown > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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