Dinghy anchor options

Originally posted by Gordon 1430 I have a small Bruce Anchor and about 2m chain, which I leave in while sailing which has resulted in the odd swim to retrieve when the tide has come in. it works fine apart from in a strong on onshore breeze when one of the isues is getting it deep enough when wading in. At lee a few of us were using similar bits of kit to launch and recover and I did take mine with me and use to form a course for a bit of racing with rabbit starts or practice mark rounding etc.

I use a small folding grapnel for my Tammie Norrie.  Anchor isn't a useful solution in an onshore wind unless the launch area shelves gently.

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.

For me, it's not so much pond v sea as the abscence of jetty to tie up to ,and a boat that falls over if its left alone.

You could have a float on sufficient rope, pull it up and redeploy close to shore, worse when the tide is falling 'cos it'd be halfway up the beach