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How To Anchor A Bay Boat (Top Anchoring Mistakes & Tips)
hey there it's Joe somersaults run I'm
here with the man Captain Mark Johnson
8k Hollywood Florida Keys fun fishing
dude
we uh we talked about anchoring you know
a lot of us we've done some anchoring in
the shallow water we've used the anchor
pins and stuff like all right we need to
do a video on anchoring a little bit
deeper water and you know what we were
just praying for like a really windy day
so we could show the worst conditions
and we got it so we're here with some
obstacles but we're gonna talk about
anchors the different types and we're
actually get it get a get here and throw
them in and show them how to set it and
everything right yes sir okay so we'll
get right to it so in the small boat
world anchoring the two most common
types of anchor is what you see here is
what they known as a Danforth anchor
okay it has flukes and shank and chain
and then my personal favorite here is
also known as a claw or a snowplow
anchor okay and this one is set up with
what we call the reef trip which is what
we have here with the zip ties and we'll
talk about that in a second but you can
look right off the bat that you can see
these anchors are completely different
and the reason being is sometimes this
anchor works really good on hard bottom
but it doesn't work so good on a grassy
bottom you find that if you're out in
the Gulf of Mexico where we macro fish
and stuff a lot and it's windy this
anchor will happen to get clogged up
with grass all in here and it will slide
and you can't stay tight to the bottom
whereas the claw anchor snowplow when
that digs in
buddy you're on you're on the hook
you're not moving so for me personally
this is what we fish with day in day out
but if you stay in a hard bottom
scenario or fishing where you can get
this to hang on the bottom around the
bridges and stuff these anchors work
fine they're also they can bend
sometimes when you get them hung up so
that could be an advantage to get him
out of the bottom when you get stuck
talk about a reef trip so when you hang
an anchor up on the bottom and you're in
deep water you can't just go down and
get it so all of a sudden you can't pull
it up so if you look at what I have set
up here you'll notice that I have a hole
here with a buckle okay and then you
have your chain runs down to the end
your shank and then that is zip tied
right here so the zip ties are enough to
hold the boat on this anchor tight and
then if by some bad luck day this gets
hung up in a rock or I can't pull it you
tighten up the anchor rope to your boat
you bump your boat in gear with enough
force to break the zip tie which then
turns around and lets the chain pull the
anchor from the back which then pulls it
out of the snag versus when you pull
from the front all you're doing is
putting that in the rock even worse so
this anchor here is showed without a
reef trip which most people do and
that's why diving anchors in the keys is
a full-time sport because you find these
anchors up and down the reef hung in the
rock where you can't get them out
without having a reef trip setup so all
right so that right now we're going to
go ahead and deploy an anchor and show
you guys how we would easy anchor over
the side how we get set up and how we
tie it off to make sure that you don't
catch a rope around the foot or have
some things that commonly go wrong with
folks that are new at anchoring so one
more thing let's uh let's talk about the
importance of the chain you know why
someone yes good call the most important
element of this whole thing is the chain
if you took this rope and you tied it
right to the anchor direct okay that's
about as most ineffective anchoring as
you can do and the reason being the
channel is the weight of the chain and
the length of the chain keeps the plane
angle of your line from the front of
your boat on even with the almost
parallel to the bottom which allows your
anchor to dig in if you take the chain
away and your rope goes right to the end
of the shank then all of a sudden your
angle from the top of your boat to the
anchor is much more right-side up and it
will pull the anchor out of the bottom
and make it very hard for you to stay
connected so that's a big a big missing
link or a lot of recreational boaters
they just tie a rope to your anchor and
they just throw it in and they don't
know why it doesn't grab the other part
of that equation is you have to have
what we call scope all right if it's 10
feet deep you can't get away with 10
feet of anchor
basic rule of thumb is you want at least
three feet of line for every foot of
depth on a nice flat calm day if it gets
a little windy or you have a lot of
current then you want to up that scope
to about five feet of line for every
foot of depth so think about that you're
in 50 feet of water you're going to need
at least 150 feet of rope if not 250
feet of rope to successfully anchor your
bottom and keep you your boat in a safe
anchoring position if you anchor your
boat with a short rope and you don't
have any give when it's rough out there
you can take a wave over the front of
your boat and you can fill your boat
full of water which we all know is not a
good thing so make sure you have the
right kind of scope on your rope when
you want to deploy your anchor in the
deep water scope on the RO scope on the
rope okay so let's take my favorite
anchor here which is the plow let's talk
about the talk about the weight of this
- very well compared to that it's I mean
it's night and day right it is it is so
me personally these are what we anchor
our Bay boats with and this is sixteen
and a half pound anchor and this anchor
size is probably good for a boat up to
30 feet long okay so that's good for us
I'd rather have a little too much anchor
then not enough this other small anchor
here is only 8 pounds and it says it's
good to up to 24 feet okay so it's very
easy to have too small of an anchor okay
which gets you nowhere or you can have
overkill anchor which again big anchor
small boats now you're struggling to
have a place to put them
so make sure whatever anchor you decide
to purchase for your boat that it
matches the size boat you're using it
and then buy an anchor that you're gonna
use for the majority of fishing you do
what kind of bottom you're on and again
if you're on the reef especially our
delicate coral reef here and the keys
make sure that you set your anchor up
with what we call a reef trip it can be
done with zip ties it can be done with
fishing line but you even Riggin wire
you just need to make sure you have some
way to break this free here and
pulling anchor from the back if you get
it hung up in the rock all right so
right now we're gonna set this anchor
out here we're in about ten feet of
water on the ocean side all in Moraga we
got about 15 to 20 knots of wind out of
the north and this anchor is gonna work
like a charm so a big mistake people do
two things one they pull all their rope
out of the hatch and then they'll have
it where it's almost upside down so your
rope is pulling from the bottom of the
pile which can create a tangled so if
you have short rope like a lot of us
using the inshore fishing you want to
make sure that you have it to where the
Rope is pulling from the top before you
deploy it so take a minute and set your
anchor and get things ready before you
deploy your anchor you'll see how I coil
this up here and I put it on the top
okay now another problem that people
like to do is throw the anchor anchors
are heavy gelcoating your boats
expensive if you drop this or throw it
in the hit your boat you can damage your
boat in the big way so anchors are never
really designed to be thrown over we
like to ease them over the side so you
have your anchor you have your chain
you're keeping the rope away from your
feet you get on whatever side you want
you go hand over hand away from the gun
on the rub rail and let your rope out
here you can get yourself in trouble if
you get wrapped around the foot or if
this turns into a big knot and you're
trying to untangle it while your boats
going to come under pressure you can get
your hands caught in it you can have a
lot of things go wrong so you can't
stress enough the importance of having
your feet out of the way in your rope in
a nice neat coil and not in a big giant
rats nests so once you get to here you
can let your light out you get to your
cleat you can see here you make a nice
figure eight okay you always finish it
with a lock all right and then just like
that here this anchor is going to come
tight and you know when your boat gets
anchored because as soon as it comes
tight the nose your boat is always going
to spin up into the wind so if you drop
the anchor
and you somehow notice
that see the boat spinning right now
just that easy if your drift in your
nose can be at some really off angle
that's a telltale sign that you're
sliding on the anchor and it does happen
you can come loose you can have a rope
come undone you can have somehow your
chain and shackle pins and come apart
things go wrong but as long as you know
and you feel the nose your boat is up
into the wind that's how you know you're
tight on the anchor so now it's time to
go so we're going to pull our anchor big
mistake people do again not paying
attention to your rope not letting the
boat help you so you have somebody that
drives and you can idle right up your
anchor rope makes life really easy a
simple hand signal can tell your driver
that you're straight up and down on your
rope okay and if your anchor doesn't
come loose on its own you can take a
wrap around the cleat and gently use the
boat to break it free and then you can
pull it by hand so people get themselves
in trouble they hurt their back they
slip and fall they get tangled in the
rope we try to eliminate all of that by
letting the boat help you pull the
anchor simple hand signals that are
universal in the industry and just once
again paying attention to what you're
doing so that nobody gets hurt so I'm
gonna have Joe put the boat in gear I'm
gonna give them a good point with my
hand which way the anchor is I'm gonna
untie my rope and now it's very easy
hand over hand making a nice pile in
front of my feet as we get closer to the
anchor as we get straight up and down
I'll give them a fist hand signal tells
him we're good to stop and now we're
straight up and down so now that I'm
here you bend your knees your whole body
is involved in the anchor pull so if
you're lucky it pops then you can pull
and once you get to your chain you can
be very careful on the gunnel it's hand
over hand of the chain grab your anchor
and you go out and over the gunnel again
if you drop this on your boat it's
expensive fibreglass repair
and that is the safe effective way
pull your anchor so for our filming
purposes today everybody we're only
going to deploy the one anchor but the
premise to use this anchor is the same
remember it's hand over hand when you
put it out tie your rope off to your
cleat when your boat comes tight you'll
know it'll go up into the wind and then
when you pull it same thing let somebody
drive and help you universal hand
signals get your anchor up and in the
boat and then when we before we go we
always secure this stuff because again
this stuff can really do damage to the
deck of your boat all right that's going
to cover how we anchor boats in the
shallow water again if you have any
questions on the type of anchors how to
set up your scope or chain feel free to
look us up on salt strong and you can
always find us on Florida Keys fun
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