Hi all!

Thanks for the reply!

I  pretty much preset depth,tie off on bollard before heading out with anchor chain etc in cockpit,have a line attached to warp before letting anchor go,on retrevial pull on line in cockpit and up comes warp etc ,no need to navigate narrow deck,work well on quiet days but can be a handful in a chop,dont anchor often as usual fish around farms with hooks,getting/got lazy

Dont buy it,might ok on a quiet lake,lokked one my self but would you get with chain

rtl18 wrote: Pcj wrote: Dont buy it,might ok on a quiet lake,lokked one my self but would you get with chain I figure if it gets to the part with the chain, you would still have top pull it out manually. But I hear ya, it just doesn't look fit for purpose at all, plus its super expensive!

Were a yr or 2 back 150 ,showed a friend at anchors rope n chains,he just laughed

Not sure what the anchor yanka is exactly - but I suspect a float system. You are getting good advice as to what anchor/chain set up you need. But you still have to pull it up. I have used a float system for the last 30+ yrs. The last boat I bought had a winch. I took it off and sold it. More stuff to go wrong. I float the anchor up for 20-100+m. After 100+ I don't anchor and under 20m I usually pull it up - unless I feel lazy. Never caught the prop. But like everything - it helps to know what you are doing. A flat sea, no wind is different to serious chop and wind. Picking the drift angle to get you back on the float etc. Not rocket science - just practise. No anchor/chain combo is too heavy for this system, as long as it is no greater than the float capacity. I use a 20 l common drum, home made fittings. As long as my anchor combo is less than 20kg it will work.

Fish Addict wrote: Alan L - yep float system Alan. I have it on good authority that Alan L uses this system in Vtu to pull pots from depths of 400m+

There is next to no effort required floating the anchor up, and as long as your float has excess capacity over the weight of your chain/anchor, it doesn't matter how heavy the set up. Heavier the better for anchoring the boat. As FA says - there is a bit of a knack to towing the rope, but it ain't difficult - more common sense. Never had one in the prop and I have pulled up in some crappy seas.

Re using a float to retrive an anchor - there was one time I was very pleased this method works. I was helping out with the NZ Freediving Depth Nationals in Lake Taupo and we had the depth diving rig and several boats rafted up - all hanging off one anchor and chain so we had VERY deep water under us (close to 150m from memory).  The chain and anchor were fairly meaty and we had over 200m of anchor rode to recover.