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Foul Anchoring

Anchoring on ground you know to be foul is always a dodgy business, but sometimes it may be necessary. It would be a shame to miss out on a handy lunch anchorage just because the anchor might get stuck. If for some reason you don't want to run a trip line and buoy from the anchor maybe there is a lot of traffic, with the attendant risk of getting the trip line wound around someone's prop try making the rode fast to the anchor's crown, and lashing it to the end of the shank with small stuff. This way, should the anchor get caught up, a bit of hard winching will break the lashing and trip it.

Don't forget to make the lashing loose, with just a couple of turns of 1/8in line and about 25mm distance between rode and shank, or it will be very hard to break. And please don't lie overnight like this; the lashing might chafe through on the bottom and trip the anchor.

You would normally use a few metres of chain, but the illustration shows rope for purposes of clarification.

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