anchoring in exmouth
Submitted by mako magic on Sun, 2009-04-12 20:57
This is the anchor on the boat atm,has electric winch,the question is this year im looking at possbily anchoring at various locations at exmouth and tantabiddi, now is this anchor ok or should i be changing to a reef anchor for the trip? i dont want to lose the anchor or blow the winch up,prob looking at deepest of 35 to 40mmark out from tantas for anchoring
dumper
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I'd be going a heavy duty
I'd be going a heavy duty reef anchor, at least a reef pick will bend out if it gets stuck.
Plus will do alot less damage to the reef
Rosco
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reef pick
We use a reef pick at Exmouth with approx 12 mm diameter rods that bend easy enough (have a long ali pole on board).When we fish off my cousins 18 foot Pacemaker he uses a four prong reef pick with 12mmm diameter rods with electric winch. The anchor you have on the boat at the moment would almost certainly get lost in 30/40 out from tantabiddi.
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yeah thought as much, but
yeah thought as much, but hey always good to get some advice and then others know also
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anchoring is only allowed
anchoring is only allowed when you have to manually pull it up otherwise its cheating
btw its not a bad idea to change ours over for the trip especially when we are looking at anchoring up to go for a dive
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Ozzy
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I have been using the SARCA
#2 for 4 years now at Exmouth and is by far the best anchor I have used.
till
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Dunno, that 92% chance of
Dunno, that 92% chance of recovering it never seems quite high enough after you paid $220 for it!
Rosco
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and you dont want to swim for it
Swimming down to free an anchor is not an option for me at Exmouth. Even in the shallow stuff.
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Reefie
Only ever use the reefie, mainly coz of the reasons stated above, mind you, I don't have 5+ metres of boat to hold. :)
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chevin
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Anchoring
To be honest I have found that if you need a sand anchor to hold up there, you are fishing on the wrong ground anyway. A reef pick is by far the most useful anchor there, but I reckon that most of the time, drifting is by far the better option. If you anchor for any long periods of time and get a shoal of fish feeding, it won't be long before the sharks move in and you have to move out anyway.
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got a new reef anchor
got a new reef anchor sitting at the shop waiting for me atm, thanks for the help, last thing i wanted to do was lose the one on there now
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chevin
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Anchor
Make sure that you have something on the boat with which you can re-bend your reef pick. They often straighten when being recovered and a 10mm pick can be a bit of a struggle to re-shape by hand. Often you will find a fitting on the boat that will suffice but otherwise you might need to take a bit of pipe with you.
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