HOW TO USE AN ANCHOR BALL - Never pull an anchor again ⚓️ Using a polyform buoy | Gale Force Twins
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2020
- I think we can all agree that pulling an anchor can be hard on the back. ⚓️ Especially when spending a day bottom fishing. Each time you go to another spot that's another anchor pull. 😣 Before you know it you've been to 4 fishing spots and your back is starting to feel the burn! Using a polyform buoy (anchor ball) is a wonderful to pull an anchor without ever actually breaking a sweat! 😅 This method of pulling an anchor is not commonly used as it may seem daunting to new or less experienced boaters. We hope you and your back find this tutorial helpful! 😁
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Great tutorial, thanks, ladies. Only one remark: you keep filling the sea with broken zip lines... they're functional, but almost everlasting nylon will keep them floating for hundreds of years, or until a fish swallows it. I suggest you trade them for cotton lines. They'll have the same effectiveness, but degrade in weeks.
I came here to make this comment too....
@Dave DDM They're not biodegradable. They just break into very tiny fragments, also harmfull. And remember to try to answer without being unpolite, bigot.
Come on, if all the boaters in Florida used this method, all their daily combined zip tie sea discards would not add up to 1/4 of 1 commercial net that's probably discarded by the commercial boats by every minute. The girls or a few random boats are not doing anything that will harm the sea.
@@SaltwaterOutlaw Whatever we can do to reduce pollution, the better. As per discarding commercial nets, it is an absurd that should be banned.
I'm not gonna have to ponder what ever happened to the kids who volunteered for hall monitor duty anymore
You might want to use a bit of cotton thread or light hemp twine instead of a plastic zip tie. Cheers.
there's enough plastic in the ocean
Knew this comment would be here..
Ditto - I know it's small, but PLEASE no more plastic waste into the ocean! You could also use a trip-line with a float if your anchor gets stuck often.
Could run a cable from eye to eye on the anchor, with a ring on the cable to the anchor line.
If it hangs just pull it back to the bottom of the anchor and jerk it free
They make biodegradable zip ties.
For a short rock anchor stop, why not keep it simple, attach your rode to the main anchor shackle and on a long line (about the depth of the water) attach your float to the crown, then simply pick up the bouy and pull in. No plastic left in the ocean.
Great job on the video ladies, for me once I discovered a trolling motor I rarely ever use my anchor anymore. Gone is the ball and pulling up all that line. Now all I do is turn off the switch and raise the trolling motor and I'm gone. Keep up the good work!
Awesome video. Been a captain for 10 years. Very refreshing to watch you girls give great, clear, and concise information. Covered all the steps. And nice splices!
That is some really nice marlin spike splicing. Bravo Zulu.
Not that I'm a tree hugger, but using a zip tie is still putting plastic in the rivers and oceans, Try cooking string - made from cotton, will breakdown much faster. also, your ball rope was closer to 4". Great information, love what you're doing!!
4” ? Looked more like 4’ to me
I think "Get a life" springs to mind.
Please don’t use plastic.
I use a re- useable stainless spring clip for my release
@@2534will a spring clip! have to that in action
Great video.. As a father of three daughters, I absolutely love your videos... you young ladies are great. You taught this old dog a new trick.
Great system . There are some variations to your method but the principle is the same , i like it because it Saves your back and shoulders . we have used similar method for over 15 years . Suprising how many people still lift their anchors by hand when there is such an easy method available.
I use the same trip method on my grapple anchor when fishing on my kayak. Never realized bigger boats/ anchors use this method too. Works wonders and saved me a few anchors. Awesome advice girls!
Love the idea of having an anchor in a basket just for bottom fishing. I’m tired of working the anchor from the bow and dealing with all the rope. I’m def going to try this method!!
Yes!! It’s a must :)
Very informative I have been using anchor balls same way for over 40 years. Living on NC outer banks wreck fishing can be a real struggle with anchor retrieval. The ball takes the work out of it even floating it off entanglement of wreck. Keep up the great videos I thoroughly enjoy them!!
Okay, just found you guys tonight. And here's what happened... This old salt who's boated a lot in my younger days just watched two young ladies give a boating lesson for riding rough seas. I did it for grind and giggles. But, I learned an important navigation lesson! Now, I watch a second video and learn two really cool anchor tips! My ego has been firmly placed in check and I am truly humbled and impressed. Great job on both videos ladies and thank you so much for the education! I'll keep watching and learning!
Excellent video ladies! This is one method I use to single hand my 50' MY. I can have my 65 pound Mantus anchor with 40 meters of 3/8" chain out and this method still works. An old salty captain taught me this, and at first, I did not believe it could work with such a heavy anchor and chain. There are other methods as well, but trying to weigh anchor single handed from a flybridge on a big boat can lead to disaster. With this method, I know where my chain is and end up facing it with the buoy indicating where it is. Then I can use the windlass to bring it in without damaging the windlass. Well done!
Thank you very much!!
Great to see you gals sharing so much real practical information with everyone. It took years for me to learn a lot of this stuff before the days of the internet. What a goldmine for young boaters/fishermen starting out. Thanks!
Today I learned something. Thank you, lovely ladies.
We lost our ring in Katchemac bay using a clip carabiner like the one your using. We switched and are now using a screw down type carabiner. This anchor raising technique works perfectly!
Good work Captains way to inform others about anchoring with a grapple and using an anchor ball definitely makes life easy!!! Tight lines
I believe there is a way to connect a pinch clamp to hold the chain to the anchor and when it gets stuck it would pull the chain out of the clamp. A trip to the hard ware store may save leaving plastic in the ocean. Great concept!
So tedious this comment is.
@@JayKayKay7 FU
Aha. Another nuanced and well-reasoned response. Thank you for your suggestion. @@JLH1956
You girls are awesome at explaining everything!
aww I just found your channel. I read the channel name as "Gale Force Winds" by accident so I was shocked. The fact that you're twins makes me so happy, I don't talk too much to my siblings and I love seeing young adult siblings who are still in touch with each other and hang out
Great information about the anchor line to know so whenever I get the boat that I want, then maybe we can all go fishing lol, Have a blessed day today and enjoy it, be safe and happy.
You guys have a great way of teaching.. thank you.. very clear instructions, easy to follow
That's the best vid I have seen on explaining how an anchor ball works.Plus the idea of releasing a stuck anchor.
Thank you Ladies. I've lost a couple of my Hooker Anchors in the past. Love that trip method you mentioned 👌
Thanks for introducing me to an interesting product! I wish I'd had one of those 2 months ago when my anchor snagged an unmarked illegal 2000 lb mooring. That was a frustrating adventure that you could have saved me from. But this video shows a couple of things that could catch your viewers by surprise:
- A good anchor should be able to withstand veering under load. And, indeed, withstand load. Your ziptie arrangement will cause the anchor to trip if the wind shifts. Or to trip even without a wind shift if you don't have lots of scope. Only ok for a lunch hook (my own preference is to try to always use best practices, so I can discover problems with my technique while I'm awake and the sun is up).
- If you're doing this ziptie thing, the anchor will trip when you weigh in any case, even without the buoy thing, won't it?
- Some anchors have "rock slots", which allow the shackle to slide from end to end along the shank, so backing over the anchor will help with retrieval, but the anchor should still reset if it needs to. But afaik all the anchors with rock slots don't perform nearly as well as the best anchors.
- Rocky bottoms are tough. Grapnels will *sometimes* hold ok if the rocks happen to be just the right size, and are beyond useless in any other bottom. The emerging consensus seems to be that the best anchors these days are Excel and Spade (e.g. check out the awesome youtube anchor test series by S. V. Panope).
- While a ziptie used like this is dangerous, most people would advise a ziptie (or etc) mousing the shackle.
- Mixing stainless steel with galvanised steel (mixing metals generally) in salt water will *eventually* lead to galvanic problems. It will take a while, but it's worth watching out for.
Excellent points, Ben, all of them! I'd add one more suggestion to the list: serious fishermen around here all use weighted rope for their anchor lines, so if they have to cut them in rough weather, the line doesn't sneak its way back up to the surface at a later date and bight onto some other boat's prop or foul their gear.
@@timapple6586 I disagree!
- Almost all anchor rodes are nylon and/or chain. Those sink anyway, so weights wouldn't change much. Floating ropes such as polyethylene and dyneema don't absorb shock loads, and thus make terrible anchor rodes. Do people in your area use those? Or under what conditions does nylon float?
- Anything you set out with and don't return with is pollution. The only tolerable exceptions are rapidly biodegradable (I guess natural fibres like cotton or hemp will break down eventually, and nobody uses those). What happens if people leave messes and don't clean them up? Further down this thread, people are pointing out that zip ties are pollution, but that's nothing compared to a rode, nor the risk of fouling someone else's discarded anchor.
- There's also a selfish reason to make sure your rode floats: anchors are expensive. Unless you're just tying a rope around a rock, you'll probably not want to lose it permanently. Retrieval requires a floating rode or a diver.
- Because this ever more desperately urgent I'll speculate further. By now we've all heard far more than we want to about how we have to stop burning fossil fuels---we've known for over half a century that this is urgent! Do you suppose there's any chance that the risk of fouling a propeller might sway someone away from choosing a motorboat and towards a sailboat or rowboat etc, or even just slowing down to see obstacles in the water (like divers, turtles, whatever)? That would be a win for all of humanity. This is probably a tiny effect, but perhaps if we all talk about it incessantly we will be able to transition slightly more gracefully than if half of us don't talk about it for another 5 years. Of course, some people have electric motors... so this is a bit of a tricky one.
I have the same anchor ball with one difference. Tied to the ball is a mechanism that only lets the ball travel down the line. Yours is better because you attach it only when you're ready to pull the anchor. Mine needs to be on the anchor line. The advantage mine has is that you can leave your anchor fast in the event you need to chase a fish. Mine will also not leave the anchor, so with no tension it floats the anchor even in rough seas. PNW fisherman so anything less than 4 ft seas is a blessing. 6ft is pretty much normal. In the end both systems have their advantage. Your demonstration was perfect.
Definitely makes sense! We set up our anchor ball that way when we go tarpon fishing!
Fantastic! I'm not a huge fisherman but I have been around a few years and I've never heard of an anchor ball, that's awesome, very clever, you girls know your stuff!
I have to say, cuteness overload! 🥰
Excellent video.
I grew up fishing the grouper reef about 22mi west of Ozona.
That was in 50s-60s and danforths were more prevalent then.
Your grapple hook anchor, espec the way you rig it, is far better.
Few people realize that boats may end up sunk and people drowned when a sudden summer Gulf squall comes onto you and you can't get the anchor unstuck from the rocks.
That happened to some Bucs football players.
When they tried brute force in reverse to free the anchor, that pulled the anchor line so tight it held the bow down, so the next big wave just rolled over the boat, filling and sinking it. Far far better to ditch the anchor and line than to chance keeping a taut line in rough seas.
I have gone down an anchor line hand under hand to free the anchor.
But the squall was coming but not on us yet. Even then I found it difficult to hold onto the line, and the anchor was jerking around, so I was careful where I put my hand. The current and changing up and down of the boat caused the line to whip constantly.
I kept an iron grip going up.
Would never ever do that again.
We made it thru Hurricane Pass and ran up on lee side of what we called then Hog Island (the N isle).
Anyhow, you ladies are showing a great rig that can save lives, not to mention "make you pray" stress.
Wonderful videos.
You have the best boating videos on youtube.
Thank you for all the productive work you surely must put into them.
I went to my local shop and they had no clue want an anchor ball is..
So I showed them your video
Hi twins, you are a perfect team for a wonderful fishing crew, so young and so already expert.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy our videos :)
This is a great video to show the importance of scope. The anchor ball is reducing the scope and the weight of the chain to the point that the anchor is no longer laying flat. Love these instructional videos.
Great job explaining this technique!
It appears to me that you girls have been either taught very good by someone or y’all have done a lot of homework and research. Great video!
Now if they would stop calling it rope that would make my day. Haha. It’s Line on a boat, rope is for tying stuff up on shore.
@Matt Do you really are pathetic
@Matt Diamond Weird... I ALWAYS see them running the boat. Never a man. Are you assuming this? Love the channel and the knowledge I've gained from here.
Matt Diamond do your research,both of these young ladies are certified captains.
David Merullo anchor warp
We did that for years in Hawaii, especially good for when anchor gets stuck and you can't pull it in. Great for heavy anchors.
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This is a very clear, concise and practical video. Absolutely great job. I learned something new. Thanks, FD
Great demonstration and very informative Amanda and Emily! Great videos ladies. Keep them coming!
Do the marine world a favor when setting your zip tie put a second tie around the tag end of the original tie secured it to the anchor shaft or the anchor ring! This way you will retain the broken zip tie to the anchor and can properly dispose of this garbage top side! Still have the same functionality and yet be clean mitigating litter in the ocean! You should modify your otherwise great video demonstration to include this improvement. Pro tip from #SeattleRingHunter
Excellent, exactly what I was going to post. I add a little electrical tape on the "anchor" zip tie
Just use a anchor winch
Use a www.seahalt.com anchor and forget the zip ties...
Rocco 117 shit can still get stuck dude
Agreed. Even some light gauge twitching wire will break easily enough if it has to and will rust away in no time. Please don't use plastic as a sacrificial fastener
That is excellent‼️‼️
1 bad comment-don’t use the zip tie. Use something less harmful to the ocean, cotton-jute. It will degrade fast-OR- tape the end of the zip tie to the anchor that way it comes out of the water when it breaks during recovery.
Great work gals
exactly !
.makes sense the ball but no sense the zip tie .1 is plastic pollution. 2 could brake when u are actually using the anchor and instead of keeping u anchored comes off with load and u start drifting with the anchor hanging to the boat lifted the other side
Great food for thought on the anchor lesson! I learned some things! Thanks for sharing! Love y’all’s videos and Keep it up!
Really love that I found this channel of yours' Capn's.
Great tips for many little boating techniques. Thanks!!!
9:27 use a second zip tie to tie the remaining tag end to the shackle to secure it to the anchor system after it breaks so you don't have another piece of plastic garbage in our ocean people! Thank you.
If you use 3/8 shafts on your anchor .. the shafts bends when you pulling up , and is not neccesary to use plastic tie
Easy peazy lemon squeezy y'all made me laugh. Its great to see two young female captains doing there thing. You ladies are paving the way for young female angers and i think its great keep up the amazing videos.
Wow, that was very cool. Yes, definitely saves the back pain. Very useful & educational video. Thank you beautiful(s)!
Thank you for this video! I love learning new tricks. Video was very helpful.
Use a reef anchor stainless steel . Holds really well and bends when you pull to release if from the sea bed better that zip ties in the ocean
a simple loop of bailing wire would do the same and if you just tie one side firmly around the chain and the other side just wrap tightly against the anchor it should be reusable for some time and if lost its just iron.
@@rdh1001 indeed, that's how we do it in Morocco's off-coast
Marine zip ties are biodegradable. They're made for exactly this. It's not your zip tie from Home Depot.
Hello! This video is well edited and informative. This is the 2nd "how to" video of yours that I've watched .. new subscriber now. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks for subscribing and welcome to our channel!! We hope you enjoy our videos 🐟😊
Thank you for making my boat fishing life so much easier.
Great advice, many thanks!
Nice video girls but we always go forward a bit & loop the rope to the back cleat. That way you can go straight over the anchor line instead of In an arc, avoiding catching your chain around the bommie your anchored on & getting a straight lift.
We use a similar type of anchor, but the barbs are made of a less rigid metal, that way in case it's needed the anchor's barbs bend back. But this was very educational, thanks. I enjoy these types of videos
Thanks gals I have an anchor ball and will get my kit ASAP. Great channel- my new fav!
Great Job ! Ya'll are great instructors and teachers. tight lines !
Well done video and effective anchor retrieval method but is there another fastener to use instead of the zip tie that would not pollute the waterway and end up killing wildlife?
You ladies deserve way more subs
Very much appreciated!! Thank you for watching our videos!
Have never heard of this anchor removal technique. Thanks!
Love watching your videos I learn something every time thanks very much looking forward to the next one
Dang it.I was going to learn to dive and resell lost anchors lols.
i dont like the idea of the zip tie being in the water .. isn't the same as throwing plastic in the ocean ??
A zip tie in the ocean
Bro....fuck off
You can probably do two zip ties together, one on the Chain one on the anchor. When one breaks it will hold the other probably
really like this nice instructional video! will the zip tie method work with Danforth or other style anchor?
@@AquaCul2Ryes it will
Thanks Cap's, that was cool, you all are teaching me a lot for when I get my first boat.
Great vídeo, love the ideas so practical and very well explained. Muchas gracias !
Perfect! I actually hurt my back last weekend pulling the anchor and I was thinking, how will I do this in another 10 years when I’m old, lol.
So glad you found this video!!! Thanks for the feedback!
You'll do it the same way, and complain more. Take my word for it. 😄
Good idea about the "trip method", any better idea about using a more environmental friendly tie such as jute, cotton rope?
In the Coast Guard we used jute twine. Used it to secure old fire hose around the mooring lines as chafing gear too.
Really useful and informative. Thank you.
Great video. Now I know how to use a grapple anchor, although I use a danforth with a windlass on my 34 sailboat.but it is good to have two types for varying bottoms.
When the anchor ball popped up it reminded me of the movie Jaws!
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Ditto
First time I see Ladies who don't use the opportunity to showoff in bikini.
while I prefer it this way, their viewership will never grow like it would if they were to show off their bodies
Very easy to understand... thank you!
I am impressed! Great tip that I did not know. Thanks.
Great tip on how to rig a tripping anchor except what happens to the zip-tie? More plastic pollution in the ocean for the fish to eat
Their advice is generally bad practice for: safe anchoring, damage to seabed and littering the ocean with zipties
Thanks for the video. Are there any non-zip tie options you can suggest? We have a lot of dugongs and sea turtles near us and want to make as little impact as possible.
Use short pieces of hemp gardening twine. Tie them in a reef knot, it will break. If it’s windy use two or three pieces of twine. No plastic in the water!
Well made video though with good information as always!
We rig our rocking chair style anchor the same way up here in the northwest..thanks for sharing
Excellent content. I don’t own a boat but now know what to look out for when I do.
Do you ladies do charters by any chance. I would love to bring my daughters down to the keys and charter you ladies. We are from boynton beach Florida and i charter boats in the keys at least 10 times a year
Yes agree with the plastic issue. Also if you get a wind/current shift, you’re going to pop you tie. And pull your anchor out. (Assuming it’s wedged. Otherwise great video! Thanks. BTW I am an identical twin!
Very helpful. Great videos. Thanks!!
love how you explain stupid simple. keep it up. Vets love it!
Are those zip ties biodegradable? Hope so...hate to think every time you (and all the other boats that use them) pop pieces of plastic off in the ocean.
Cotton string disintegrates fast
I’m sure your personally putting more plastic in the ocean than a zip tie
@@seabournewolf2298 but let’s not put more in than we have to!
Now I know if I'm ever out in the water and see a zip tie floating around, I should keep an eye out for the Twins. :D
Or me.
Great tips ladys thank you for taking the time to make this
Awesome! thanks for showing us that trick!!
Wow! I thought this was the first thing everyone did when learning to set an anchor! I learned about how to use a buoy when I was like 9 or something. With as many boats I see having Danforth anchors, how the hell do they get them back up without a buoy? Drive around the damn thing forever?? Common sense is not so common any more I guess.
Great vid, well explained but echo the zip tie comments, loads of other environmentally friendly way of doing the same thing. Please stop using zip ties.
You can buy biodegradable zip ties.
@@mvakleko Didn't know they Make Eco-friendly Zip-ties..
@@mvakleko “Eco-friendly” zip ties are made of recycled plastic and are recyclable, if ever found on land and put in a recycling bin. But when underwater, they still remain made of plastic that dissolves like any other plastic-made objects. “Biodegradable is not better for the environment, it just means the plastic will breakdown into small, in most cases more harmful fragments. All plastic will biodegrade eventually, and still poses a threat to the local environment, this is just greenwashing a marketing technique used to make people feel like they are doing the right thing.-Emma.”
Love the info videos guys.. great job
Thank you for sharing capt Gale.. keep safe always
So you recommend dragging the anchor chain around in a circle disturbing the sea bed ?
Once anchor pops, it's off the seabed in the same way it would if you are directly above it. The only way it drags is if you arent using a big enough float, in that case you're right it could def damage seafloor
The anchor rope is going in a circle not the anchor
they only do that during the day when all the fish arnt sleeping
Great video. My only suggestion is to always keep the carabiner attached to one of the clip-in spots on the anchor ring. You can still run rope through the gap and you won’t lose the ring if you accidentally drop it.
The whole point of running the carabinier through both eyelets in the ring is to keep the rope from being able to slip back out of the gap. You install the rope through the gap them block the gap with the carabinier.....if you just put it through one eyelet you'll probably lose your buoy.
As usual , great information ! Enjoy all of your videos!
Great advice, especially the basket. Probably the best looking ships crew on the seven seas!
Very good but once you've had a good drum winch on the bow you'll leave all that at home.
Lotta people do this = lots of zip ties becoming marine food. To me it's the little things that count so I use some cotton line in place of the zip tie, comes in handy for other things too and saves the zip ties for projects on board/around the house :)
Great ladies, learn something new every day. Thank you girls, stay safe
Never knew the trip method on the grapple anchor. Great advice!
I’m concerned about having any type of tie released into the water. Particularly plastic zip ties. Otherwise love your thoughts and presentation.
I'm assuming this anchor is just used for fishing and not for longer use like overnight. Because I don't want a ziptie being the only thing keeping me from drifting into someone else's boat or onto the beach.
Yeh, well, it is a fishing boat, a fishing show, they have fishing rods, they are talking about fishing. So, yeh, this is for fishing.
Thank you for sharing! Very impressive, especially to a new boater... Cheers!
Thank you for your video it’s very clear and you explained it very well and easy to understand well done
Use Gorilla brand duct tape to secure the tag end of the zip-tie to the shackle so hopefully it stays with the anchor when the break-away is tripped 😷
Use Gorilla brand glue for your hair and it will look trippy. LOL
The day I don't have property tax, income tax, sales tax, car tax, will be the day i give two shits about some plastic in the ocean. I give the government to much money for them to not clean the trash up.
@@CooterPotPie So, instead of practicing personal responsibility, you want the government to take care of the problems caused by thoughtless/careless people? And then you whine about having to pay taxes! How Republican of you. Where in the US Constitution, or any state constitution, does it say that government has the responsibility to clean up after filthy citizens?
@@gatoryak7332 it's good to know that a democrat ( i'm assuming since you insinuated i'm republican) doesn't care about getting double taxed for your money to be mismanage. Its clear what the problem here is, you're poorly informed/ misinformed about environmental and political issues. Thus you allot your disapproval in the wrong entities. Over 90% of the USA's plastic problem comes from rivers, commercial fishing, contracted waste shipping and inclement weather, all things either owned or regulated by the government. So yeah, I expect the government not to operate like a God damn pimp.
@@CooterPotPie Wow! I wish that I could comprehend what was going through your mind (other than alcohol) when you wrote that. Maybe then I could understand how it relates to your first comment and my response to it. Pro tip: Sober up or shut up.
Great video, I was thinking you guys could come up with a solution to save the zip tie so it’s not another piece of plastic in the ocean . Might seem like a small thing but good practice. Maybe a piece of wire through the zip tie connected to the anchor would suffice.
We are new to boating. Thanks for the video!!!
Great job Captains! Funny story, When living in St. Thomas, were were cruising over to Jost Van Dyke, and heard via VHF radio, a "Moorings bare bones charter catamaran" calling back to their homeport in Tortola asking if someone could send a boat out to their position at Waterlemon Cay to deliver a few more anchors. As they have used all three of them. The Moorings radio dispatcher started to treat this as a distress call, thinking that 3 anchors were not holding the boat. Later in the reply transmission the charter boat explained to the dispatcher that they did not know that they were supposed to de-anchor upon departure from their last 3 moorings, and had been just untying the anchor line and leaving the anchor and anchor line behind...... Me thinks they lost their deposit as well.