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Re: Pulpit or Not

Posted By: Doc
Date: Monday, 3 October 2005, at 9:37 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Pulpit or Not (Walter Kaprielian)

I'm with you 100% Walter on the ring bouy /anchor retrieval system.

I anchor in 50-100' every day in the Fl keys when I'm yellowtailing, and the method is so easy, that my wife is in charge of the deployment and retrieval of the anchor. It's all done from the cockpit....to retrieve, just deploy the ball, run up your anchor line at about a 30degree angle till you can snatch the line beside the boat with a boat hook. A couple of turns around a spring line cleat, and keep running till the anchor floats in the ring on the ball. Then neutral, and the wind will blow you back to the floating ball/anchor and it's just a matter of coiling the floating line, chain and anchor into the cockpit. We never leave the cockpit....the other end of the anchor line stays 'permantly' attached to the cleats on the bow, and then through the bow chock. Maybe it doesn't look as pretty as a pulpit/windless, but I've never had to use C/X on this system, and it NEVER fails.
Doc

Messages In This Thread

Pulpit or Not
Kevin -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 11:37 a.m.

Re: Pulpit or Not
JP -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 12:05 p.m.

Re: Pulpit or Not
Brian Smith -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 1:34 p.m.

Ditto with JP= NO Pulpit *NM*
zerocavity -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 5:28 p.m.

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Harv -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 12:57 p.m.

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Mack -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 1:19 p.m.

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Capt. Dave Kosh -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 1:19 p.m.

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thudddd -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 1:42 p.m.

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Walter Kaprielian -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 2:48 p.m.

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Capt. Dick Dean -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 5:59 p.m.

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Harv -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 6:18 p.m.

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John F. -- Friday, 30 September 2005, at 8:43 p.m.

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Lynn F. -- Saturday, 1 October 2005, at 12:20 a.m.

Re: Pulpit or Not news *LINK*
94b5e -- Thursday, 29 June 2006, at 10:50 a.m.

Re: Pulpit or Not
Doc -- Monday, 3 October 2005, at 9:37 p.m.

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Harv -- Monday, 3 October 2005, at 10:21 p.m.

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Harv -- Monday, 3 October 2005, at 10:25 p.m.

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Harv -- Monday, 3 October 2005, at 10:29 p.m.