Strangest things that came up with your anchor..

A HUGE stump and 10ft of tree trunk up from the bottom in about 40' of water! I never thought we would get that thing loose!!
 

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Loneranger said:
You may have put back the murder weapon needed to put some bad guy away.

John
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Yea, we wondered about that after. It was sort of a gut reaction to flick it back in, we didn't really sit and ponder it.

But on reflection, the cove was (at the time) miles from any roads, so it wasn't a "toss out" from a vehicle. It could have been a toss from a boat, but they would have had to travel a few miles up the channel (which is 150' + deep) so that they could toss it in a cove (that goes dry every few years). So I doubt it.
 
fwebster said:
Dude............how on earth did you get that chain wrapped around the stump like that by accident ?
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C'mon Frank... you know the laws of physics are different in boating. That chain wrapping is caused by the same phenomenon that causes an extension cord to wrap itself 4 times around an engine and catch on every protrusion when trying to move a work light in a straight line in the engine room while you are wedged on the back side of it. I think it's called Boating Micro Wormholes.
 
fwebster said:
Dude............how on earth did you get that chain wrapped around the stump like that by accident ?
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Just like Gary said........a gift from the gods I guess!

The funny thing is, other than the windlass dragging a little it did not pull the bow down that much until it broke the surface. We had to break off some of the smaller roots in the bundle and then drop the anchor a few feet down and bring it back up quick trying to get it to roll over and turn loose!:wow:
 
I got a good one. Several years ago while boating on the lake I dropped anchor, and secured the end to the cleat. Oops, I secured the wrong line, and down went my anchor, rode and all. Water was too deep to dive for, so I wound up buying a new anchor setup. A year later, while anchoring in the same area, you guessed it....I pulled up my old anchor. I liked that setup so much I went back to using it, and put the new setup in storage.

Funny thing is, this is a very busy area, and it amazes me that no one pulled up that anchor and took it home, before I got it back.
 
i pulled into an area in tac.wa. one 4th of july afternoon--:grin:got their early to make sure i got my anchor set good--due to heavy tide changes--my wife started backing up, and i let the anchor out (60-80' deep)at about 120' feet of rope, i felt the anchor pull down hard:smt038thinking by-george -i'v got it--in a couple hours there were 5 boats tied off to the back of my boat . at about 11:00 pm everyone started pulling away with thank you's . then the fun begin--took me till 3am to finally get my anchor up--backing boat back and forth,and about every maneauver i could think of---and what should appear was a 18 wheeler front axle an tires,and i was 1/4 mile from shore--i still can't figure out how it got there--go figure !!

steven
 
rusobr2 said:
i pulled into an area in tac.wa. one 4th of july afternoon--:grin:got their early to make sure i got my anchor set good--due to heavy tide changes--my wife started backing up, and i let the anchor out (60-80' deep)at about 120' feet of rope, i felt the anchor pull down hard:smt038thinking by-george -i'v got it--in a couple hours there were 5 boats tied off to the back of my boat . at about 11:00 pm everyone started pulling away with thank you's . then the fun begin--took me till 3am to finally get my anchor up--backing boat back and forth,and about every maneauver i could think of---and what should appear was a 18 wheeler front axle an tires,and i was 1/4 mile from shore--i still can't figure out how it got there--go figure !!


steven
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A little off topic but still a what-the-heck. A friend was boating with his bass boat and running the shallow pretty quick. In about 4ft. of water he hits a diesel engine block and it takes off the engine and rips out the transom. He sank right there. Boat was totaled, captain was OK. Who puts these thing out there??
 
Even further off topic:

Weapons are common catch, fishermen say

a crewman aboard a clamming boat remained hospitalized yesterday for exposure to mustard gas after his vessel dredged up World War I-era munition shells.

Clamming boats are particularly prone to hauling up munitions because their gear stirs up the seabed. Last month, for example, workers sorting clams at a New Bedford plant discovered nearly 200 hand grenades.
 
I pulled up an underwater cable one time. Definitely was not marked on the charts. I thought my windlass was going to give out.
 
Slept out at anchor on night on Lake Conroe. Awoke in the morning to feel boat being gently tugged and released, over and over.

A 15 pound catfish, hooked on a broken trot line, and dragging a 5 foot tree branch, had tangled around my anchor rope about 5 feet below the surface.

Dispatched him with a .32, then spent 20 minutes unwrapping it all and carefully removing a couple of hooks from my anchor rope. He fried up just fine and made several tasty meals.
 
Boating in Clearwater FL and pulled up another anchor about 4 times larger than mine with probably 30' chain rode attached all corroded and covered in barnacles. That wasn't a fun pull from 35' below, left a nice gash in the gel coat too. :smt013
 
Watched a crew on a 34 Rinker that was anchored next to me this afternoon pull up a concrete block on there anchor. Locals use them to hold crab pots, took a few tries to dislodge it.
 
I was at Lake Travis in Cypress Creek area and had been anchored for about an hour. When I tried to pull up anchor, I found it pretty difficult to heave by myself. It took three guys to pull up my anchor which was attached to another anchor and 150' rode, which was also attached to another anchor with a 75' rode. Funny thing is that I was just about to go out and buy another anchor when I pulled up two new anchors for myself!:grin:
 
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