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• Not an anchor thread, an anchor readiness question
  • Anchor Ready
  • wouldn't matter to me, as long as it can be gotten overboard quickly. I've
  • I'm with your captain, anchor ready...
  • Craig, we both have Islander 32's I believe..
  • Put me in the anchor ready on the bow category..mostly.
    • On the bow and held by a pin.
  • I don't think it matters, so long as you can deploy quickly
  • Related, how fast can you get in your dinghy and row or power out a kedge anchor?
    • It's a matter of motivation
      • How 'bout your crew, did they freeze?
        • Good point on crew... but then...
          • Randy's crew is Very competent
            • I posted that to see if she was online.
          • She sounds like good crew to me Gene.
  • I keep my anchor on the bow roller because I keep my guns in the anchor locker.
    • Why didn't I think of that?
      • If Dave Had Sunk By November We'd Never Heard That
    • Looks more like might be dolphin food!
      • No, they store the Dolphin food in the Whaler.
        • But, but, that's nowhere near the water!
      • Do you know how expensive dog and cat food is?
    • Don't you have a deck cannon on that thing?
      • Doesn't everybody?
    • Hey Dave! How many horses is that engine of yours?
      • We need to stop often to buy more ammo.
        • LMFAO!!!!
  • Two anchore ready to deploy...
  • Absolutely on the roller.
    • Agree
  • Would you put your brake peddle in the trunk because you don't use t as much as the gas?
  • We do both
    • if you use two of your own pendents how do you get chafe.
  • at 88 lbs. it's at the bow ready to go.