The Complete Sailor by David Seidman

Author:David Seidman [Seidman, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Published: 2011-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

Weighing Anchor

If a horizontal pull digs an anchor in, a vertical pull should break it out.

Prepare to get underway as you would from a mooring, with sails up and sheets free. Haul in on the rode until you are above the anchor, or slowly sail up to it on a luffing main. When the rode is up and down (vertical), the anchor is ready to be broken out. Choose your tack by bringing the rode to the opposite bow and preparing to back the jib to the same side. When her bow has swung over, weigh anchor (haul it free of the bottom) with a strong heave and begin pulling it in as fast as possible. Once up, hold the flukes away from your topsides, clean off any bottom muck, and stow for sailing. Pay off on the desired tack, staying in protected waters until the foredeck work is finished.

If the anchor will not break out easily, pull in as much rode as possible with everyone on board near the bow. Make the rode fast and then move quickly to the stern, using the boat’s buoyancy to pry the anchor up. The waves from passing motorboats can also help lift the bow.

Stubborn anchors can be sailed out by tacking and jibing around a shortened rode to pull at the anchor from all sides until it comes loose. If still more force is needed, ease out plenty of rode. Then bear off under sail, building up speed and taking in rode as you go. Once abreast of the anchor, make the rode fast and come up hard against it. The sudden jerk will throw you onto the other tack while wrenching the anchor free.

In bottoms that might foul the anchor, rig a trip line, a strong, light line tied to the anchor’s crown. The line is buoyed so it can be picked up and hauled on to overturn the anchor, thereby releasing it.

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