Dinghy anchor options

Originally posted by Rupert Originally posted by iGRF What's needed here is a substantial anchor with a buoy attached so it can be used on the way out and on the way back in, why I didn't think of this before... Thanks for bringing this up it's always a pain in the neck, particularly after you've run out of idle youf to carry you and your boat into the water on their heads until you float off. But if the tide is out when you launch, the anchor could be in 20 foot deep water when you come back in? You'd need a series of buoys up the beach.

True, or high and dry half way up the beach if the reverse were the case, although we tend to be out for just an hour. But it's given me an idea for a two position set up, one close to the low water mark and the other nearer the high.

Might even try leaving it, but the way the weather has gone through our permanent marks this year just gone, the chances of it staying there are pretty slim, but it's not beyond the wit of man to design a two level device, think I'm going to give it a go. Now all I need is a remote control trolly moving device.


Edited by iGRF - 03 Feb 21 at 1:18pm

Originally posted by Sam.Spoons >Now that's genius, a possible business opportunity there iGRF?</span>

They're out there already

google remote controlled caravan moving device

Edited by iGRF - 03 Feb 21 at 4:46pm

I have purchased a small folding grapple anchor (four spikes) from Amazon. It weighs 0.5kg and is around 20 cm long so its easy to put in a padded bag and carry in my boat without it clonking around and damaging stuff as I sail. I do understand that this anchor was designed for SUP or Kayaks but my sense is that it will be enough to hold my boat for a few minutes especially as where I launch is sheltered, sandy and gently shelving so pushing it into the sand with my foot should be enough - will report back!

By way of update - I have now used my Amazon-special tiny little anchor as mentioned above on a couple of occasions to hold my Hadron H2 for a few minutes whilst I drop or get my trolley on the tidal beach that I launch from. I would say that "it works" but that I would not trust it to hold the boat for any length of time or if there were waves as this would certainly pull it out and the boat would drift off. My launching site is an estuary so its a soft bottom to push the anchor into, the wind is nearly always offshore and there are no waves to worry about so for that use its a great solution!