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Old 20-04-2012, 00:14   #1
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Dingy anchor

I just bought a Gardian G5 for the dingy. It's made by Fortress, but they don't produce a Fortress model that small. The Gardian is almost identical to the Fortress, but is not anodised, has only 1 fluke angle setting and does not have the lifetime guarantee.
I wanted to keep the weight down and it does that at only about 1 kg. I tried it today without the 2m of chain recommended. Without the chain I was not expecting much, but hoped it would provide enough to hold the dingy by the stern so that it did not rub on a pier or jetty.
I was pleasantly surprised it set well and held the dingy easy in 20k winds with no chain.
Next I tried it in shallow water near the beach it disappeared below the sand and I could not pull it out with my full force.

I think in more difficult bottoms it will need some weight from chain to set, but if you want a very lightweight means of anchoring the dingy with no rust it's worth considering. It's several times the cost of the folding grapnel type dingy anchors, but not very expensive in terms of boat dollars.
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Re: Dingy anchor

I use a 4kg Rocna for the dingy. The little one (.05kg) is a bottle opener.
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Re: Dingy anchor

I have been using the same 5# SeaFit folding grapnel anchor on our dinghy's since 1987.




We have a canvas beach bag that holds the anchor, 15 feet of 1/4" chain and 100 feet of 3/8" brait that we keep in the bottom of the dinghy. This rig seems to work pretty well and is quite convenient.

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Re: Dingy anchor

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I have been using the same 5# SeaFit folding grapnel anchor on our dinghy's since 1987.




We have a canvas beach bag that holds the anchor, 15 feet of 1/4" chain and 100 feet of 3/8" brait that we keep in the bottom of the dinghy. This rig seems to work pretty well and is quite convenient.

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We have ben using the same anchor for diving/snoling on our dinghy weighing in at about 360 pounds... The only difference is we use a 50 foot length of 1/4" line with 15 feet of 1/4" chain. It has worked great!

I guess it depends on your use more than anything else.... If you are planning to leave your dinghy, unattended for long periods of time or overnight somewhere, you might want something more substantial, but for fishing or diving you don't really need serious ground tackle.
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Re: Dingy anchor

A 1kgDelta sounds great! Yeah, no chain required for the dink. I use an old very small danforth.... just because I got it at a yard sale for $5
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We have ben using the same anchor for diving/snoling on our dinghy weighing in at about 360 pounds... The only difference is we use a 50 foot length of 1/4" line with 15 feet of 1/4" chain. It has worked great!

I guess it depends on your use more than anything else.... If you are planning to leave your dinghy, unattended for long periods of time or overnight somewhere, you might want something more substantial, but for fishing or diving you don't really need serious ground tackle.
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Here's a trick we use when we're going ashore and worried about the dink taking a walk. We carry a stainless steel screw anchor of the type used for dog leashes. When we get near shore I untie the rode from our anchor chain and pass the line through the last link, drop the anchor off and feed the rhode out as we head into the beach. In about knee deep water, I screw the screw anchor into the bottom, pass the rhode through the ring on that anchor and tie it and the other end of the anchor line to out bow painter. With that I can haul on the looped rhode and float the dinghy back off-shore where she sits patiently waiting for us to return. (Few are willing to swim out to a dinghy, particularly if there's a "Diver Down" flag flying from a staff on it.) To relocate the screw anchor, I have a length or 1/8" line that passes through an old tennis ball and is tied to the screw anchor. The tennis ball is easy to spot, even at night. If you are going to leave the dinghy at night with this arrangement, it wise to set up a solar powered garden light on a piece of plastic tubing that passes through a couple of pipe clamps screwed to the transom so someone else doesn't bang into the dink in the dark.

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Re: Dingy anchor

Does anyone have any real world experience with the Cooper anchor for a dinghy? It is a very intriguing design and I have wondered why they don't scale it up.
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Re: Dingy anchor

We use the folding type. Ours is probably way too heavy but we use it since it came with the bigger boat. I guess what holds the dink in place is more our little hook's weight than anything else.

BTW I was thinking about a small Bruce for the dink for a time now as it seems to have the least of sharp edges (inflatable dink here).

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