I use this system. None better. My only observation is that if you use a heavy chain you can get away with much less length of rope. Not by the book but when trying to keep station over the wreck the less swing as the tide changes tne better. Make sure there's a drop strop off the ring so ypu don't puncture the buoy the anchor fires its way through! Smaller dia rope would do on your boat. Great info fish locker. Hope you don't mind my feedback.👍
Paul Dodgson - All great points mate. You are absolutely right about the chain and diameter of rope. But I was done a deal for it so you make do don’t you 😉👍🏻 I’ve never had an anchor like that burst a buoy but I can imagine a grapnel anchor could. Good thinking 👍🏻
@@TheFishLocker. You're a class act Mr! Love what you're doing. Man after my own heart. You remind me of my father. And I'm 51 lol! He loved it! All of it! Fly, float the river or a 3lb lead on a boat. Ended up doing his hobby for a living, loved conservation. You're a breath of fresh air. I applaud your sharing 👍 some people are protective for some reason. Spread the knowledge and keep the sport alive. Thank you 😀 👍
Paul Dodgson - Thankyou very much. 😊 Yes some people don’t want to share anything for some reason? In my opinion, if we all shared what we know, we would all know a lot more! For me everything outdoors is my passion, I was a very outdoors child and just love anything fishing. I don’t know if I will ever be in a position to do it for a living but I don’t think I will ever stop doing it. Tight lines mate. 👍🏻😉🎣
lefty940 - This vid is about as detailed as I can make it for hitting your mark as everything else is just experience and practice - and even then sometimes it goes slightly wrong. It’s not an exact science and every boat and day at sea is different. 🛥⚓️
@@TheFishLocker yes some great info. This will sound crazy but with my old boat i was almost always very close to marks but with the one i have now its totally different. I think the Gps is much more accurate and faster than the old one
lefty940 - Who knows. I suspect with ones like the one I have when you have a yearly subscription fee. As soon as you don’t renew it makes your charts inaccurate. So you have to renew your subscription. Who knows? 🤷🏻♂️
Romas fisherman - Haha. Someone didn’t think so. Less than 100 views and a dislike.lol. I’m starting to do some short vids on boat use and owning in between the fishing vids. Hopefully they’re useful to you guys.
Hope you dont mind me asking. Have just bought my first boat, a Warrior 165. My neighbour is an experienced boat owner and will basically captain the boat for the first 12 months whilst I get my qualifications. The boat needs certain items being replaced such as the anchor rope. As I will be fishing out of Plymouth in up to 200ft of water, would you be so kind as to advise what rope I should purchase, namely type of rope/diameter and length. I believe the rope should not be a floating rope such as blue poly rope. Regards, Ron
I personally use a dyneema style rope. It’s expensive but very very good quality. I have 2x350ft coils. When I’m anchoring in deep water I connect the 2.
Hello John. A question if you don't mind. I have two shackles on my anchor chain. Will the chain pass through the ring or will it get caught on the screw part of the shackle? Many thanks.
Hi John - many thanks for the videos and tutorials - informative and entertaining. On anchoring I see that you always drop and haul from the side, given that a 520 / Warrior and in my instance an Endeavour 500 all have cuddys with forward hatch access and rope locker how do you then tie off on the bow given that you are working from the deck? Do you run the anchor rope through a painter loop attached to the bow? Regards Steve
You can run a painter line. All I do is tie off to the cleat midships by the controls and run the line along the side of the hull/cuddy, take a turn around the forward cleat and over the bow roller. So when I come to haul all I do is go up front and slip the rope off before steaming away for hauling with the Alderney ring.
interesting video ,thanks what about those electric anchors approx 40 lbs or similar but they only have 40m of rope, I use one in the lakes 40 lbs never tried it at seas its says its marine suitable still even in east of Ireland is usually no more then 25 m of water where I fish ,would you think is unsafe to have that little spare of rope 15 m spare in 25 m of water
- I don't know which ones you mean? And I don't know of many small boats that use 40lb anchors? That is what I would expect from a 30ft vessel. You want 2-3 times the depth of water and spare incase you come into trouble.
There is a lot more to anchoring than I thought!! How come you can’t just drop the anchor at the wreck and have the anchor line going straight up to the boat I’m confused and slightly scared as I’m trying anchoring for the first time.
Reel Fishing - I have been asked by a few folks to start doing a boat owners/users playlist with short vids on boat use etc. So vids not necessarily with fish in.lol.
darren rodd - As I said mate, folks have asked me to do it as a “How to anchor” and to start doing vids about being a small boat user/owner. There will be others in the coming weeks.
Never ever ever it thought when i was learning triangles in school that i`d need it for something like this :D. Love the vid.
😉
I used the closed captions because of the wind noise. It had me laughing. Anyhow, great stuff.
- Haha. Yeah, the subtitles are absolute gibberish half the time!! 🤣🤣🤣
I use this system. None better. My only observation is that if you use a heavy chain you can get away with much less length of rope. Not by the book but when trying to keep station over the wreck the less swing as the tide changes tne better. Make sure there's a drop strop off the ring so ypu don't puncture the buoy the anchor fires its way through! Smaller dia rope would do on your boat. Great info fish locker. Hope you don't mind my feedback.👍
Paul Dodgson - All great points mate. You are absolutely right about the chain and diameter of rope. But I was done a deal for it so you make do don’t you 😉👍🏻 I’ve never had an anchor like that burst a buoy but I can imagine a grapnel anchor could. Good thinking 👍🏻
@@TheFishLocker. You're a class act Mr! Love what you're doing. Man after my own heart. You remind me of my father. And I'm 51 lol! He loved it! All of it! Fly, float the river or a 3lb lead on a boat. Ended up doing his hobby for a living, loved conservation. You're a breath of fresh air. I applaud your sharing 👍 some people are protective for some reason. Spread the knowledge and keep the sport alive. Thank you 😀 👍
Paul Dodgson - Thankyou very much. 😊 Yes some people don’t want to share anything for some reason? In my opinion, if we all shared what we know, we would all know a lot more! For me everything outdoors is my passion, I was a very outdoors child and just love anything fishing. I don’t know if I will ever be in a position to do it for a living but I don’t think I will ever stop doing it. Tight lines mate. 👍🏻😉🎣
They are all useful videos mate keep up the good work
lefty940 - Thankyou. As soon as I am able I will be making more for the small boat owner/user. If you have any requests, I’ll see what I can do?
@@TheFishLocker cheers would be nice to see one for accurate anchoring on a mark i nearly always miss lol
lefty940 - This vid is about as detailed as I can make it for hitting your mark as everything else is just experience and practice - and even then sometimes it goes slightly wrong. It’s not an exact science and every boat and day at sea is different. 🛥⚓️
@@TheFishLocker yes some great info. This will sound crazy but with my old boat i was almost always very close to marks but with the one i have now its totally different. I think the Gps is much more accurate and faster than the old one
lefty940 - Who knows. I suspect with ones like the one I have when you have a yearly subscription fee. As soon as you don’t renew it makes your charts inaccurate. So you have to renew your subscription. Who knows? 🤷🏻♂️
As always great video
Romas fisherman - Haha. Someone didn’t think so. Less than 100 views and a dislike.lol. I’m starting to do some short vids on boat use and owning in between the fishing vids. Hopefully they’re useful to you guys.
@@TheFishLocker So useful
Hope you dont mind me asking. Have just bought my first boat, a Warrior 165. My neighbour is an experienced boat owner and will basically captain the boat for the first 12 months whilst I get my qualifications. The boat needs certain items being replaced such as the anchor rope. As I will be fishing out of Plymouth in up to 200ft of water, would you be so kind as to advise what rope I should purchase, namely type of rope/diameter and length. I believe the rope should not be a floating rope such as blue poly rope. Regards, Ron
I personally use a dyneema style rope. It’s expensive but very very good quality. I have 2x350ft coils. When I’m anchoring in deep water I connect the 2.
Hello John. A question if you don't mind. I have two shackles on my anchor chain. Will the chain pass through the ring or will it get caught on the screw part of the shackle? Many thanks.
It depends on the size of the shackle and the size of the ring. It may foul, it may pass through. Every time could be different. 👍🏻
Hi John - many thanks for the videos and tutorials - informative and entertaining. On anchoring I see that you always drop and haul from the side, given that a 520 / Warrior and in my instance an Endeavour 500 all have cuddys with forward hatch access and rope locker how do you then tie off on the bow given that you are working from the deck? Do you run the anchor rope through a painter loop attached to the bow? Regards Steve
You can run a painter line. All I do is tie off to the cleat midships by the controls and run the line along the side of the hull/cuddy, take a turn around the forward cleat and over the bow roller. So when I come to haul all I do is go up front and slip the rope off before steaming away for hauling with the Alderney ring.
Thanks for the video. In the video you have got your rope in bundles - are these bundles separate and if so how do you tie them together ?
I have splices in the end and connect with a small shackle.
interesting video ,thanks what about those electric anchors approx 40 lbs or similar but they only have 40m of rope, I use one in the lakes 40 lbs never tried it at seas its says its marine suitable still even in east of Ireland is usually no more then 25 m of water where I fish ,would you think is unsafe to have that little spare of rope 15 m spare in 25 m of water
- I don't know which ones you mean? And I don't know of many small boats that use 40lb anchors? That is what I would expect from a 30ft vessel. You want 2-3 times the depth of water and spare incase you come into trouble.
Nice
- Thank you very much.
Hi John, Great video, what size buoy do you use? Cheers A1 - A2 ?
This is an A4
what rope do you recommend for size type boat? I was looking at 12mm nylon 150m.
That’ll do. 👍🏻
@@TheFishLocker thanks
Clever stuff ....have you ever lost a anchor??????
- Not getting one stuck. I did have some plonker steam over my anchor rope and cut it with his propellor.
There is a lot more to anchoring than I thought!! How come you can’t just drop the anchor at the wreck and have the anchor line going straight up to the boat I’m confused and slightly scared as I’m trying anchoring for the first time.
Have a watch of my other video on the basics of anchoring a boat. It explains more of what you need to know.
did you mark the rope with electrical tape
Jeff Brownlow - Yes I did mate. 👍🏻
Jeff Brownlow - Yes I did mate. 👍🏻
Isn't this the same video from a few days ago?
Reel Fishing - I have been asked by a few folks to start doing a boat owners/users playlist with short vids on boat use etc. So vids not necessarily with fish in.lol.
Yeah I've seen it to 4 days ago
darren rodd - As I said mate, folks have asked me to do it as a “How to anchor” and to start doing vids about being a small boat user/owner. There will be others in the coming weeks.
Why don't you right your anchor to trip?
- When I'm fishing soft ground I don't need to. When I'm fishing rough ground I do rig it with a weak link to trip.