Non-hooking anchor for pvc boat

Not always having bought a good anchor, you can be sure that it will hold the boat and fishing will succeed. Often there are cases when the anchor is not able to hold the vessel (boat) because it is not installed correctly. Suitable for solving this problem are places with a slight current and calm weather.

Basic requirements for an anchor for PVC boats

Regardless of the weather, the main task of the anchor is to securely hold the boat.(ship) both in strong winds and in strong currents. The oncoming waves create jerks of the vessel, the anchor should not be displaced by the action of the jerks exerted on it.
A hooked anchor should be easy to remove. Losing the anchor at the wrong time can be a real disaster for fishermen, so the anchor must be well removed from the hooks.
The mass of the anchor should be less. An anchor weighing 2.5 kg has the ability to hold several times more than an object weighing 10 kg.
Must be sustainable. It is desirable that the anchor be painted or made of stainless alloys. Over time, rusty raids will form at the anchor, which causes soiled things and fragility.

Types of anchors

Light weight anchors are ideal for use in muddy or sandy bottoms and two swivel lamps that dig deep into the ground. There is a method that allows you to increase the holding force for the current, the anchor rope is tied to the front of the boat (bow loop) and lowered into the water as close to the side as possible. Where there is a deep or strong current, this method is strictly prohibited, since the boat can scour because of the long rope, so it is advisable to use this method in shallow waters or in places with weak waves.
There is an anchor shaped like an inverted mushroom. This anchor is convenient to store, which is an advantage in weight ratios as well as size ratio. It is good to use in places where there is silt, clay, and also at the bottom with algae.
Anchor with mushroom shape, which has two paws, making it possible to burrow into the bottom with stones and snags.

The drag force is dependent on the weight of the boat. To hold a large boat in a powerful current, two anchors are required. One anchor with lamps is on a long rope, and the second anchor is mushroom-shaped, which is lowered onto another rope. The second anchor serves to ensure that the boat does not dangle so much.

ship anchor weighing 7 kg on a long rope in any weather is able to withstand a small vessel. This anchor is well suited for fishing from a small boat. Such anchors are good to use on a soft bottom, they are not afraid of corrosion due to the vinyl coating, moreover, such a coating helps to avoid damage to the vessel while pulling the anchor.
Anchor Danforth with special paws, with which it is possible to use this design even in muddy terrain. Often, such anchors are required for large boats, since the anchor of this model itself has a large mass, as well as a rather large size.

How to choose an anchor

Each anchor is designed and good in certain places suitable for it. For the correct choice of anchor, you need to know at least approximately what kind of soil in the places where you plan to sail, and the weight of your ship (boat) also plays an important role. Weight can be found using a special table, or using a complex formula.

Anchor fastening on a PVC boat

To attach the anchor to the boat (vessel), you will need a special rope for attaching the anchor. At the end of this rope, with the help of tightly connected knots, it is necessary to make loops, then using a special bracket, it is required to attach one end of the rope to the anchor, and we attach the other to the stem of the vessel (boat). Anchor rope is usually attached to a handle, which is used to easily drag the boat.

Non-hooking PVC boat anchor

Often during fishing, an anchor hook occurs, the reason for this can be a rocky bottom, or because of snags.

There are two ways to unhook the anchor:

the first is that you have to dive into the water and remove the anchor with your hands;
the second is lighter with the help of a rope with a float.

In case swimming is carried out in places where the legs of the anchor may converge, it is necessary to tie another cable using a float (rubber ball, foam plastic). If the anchor is strongly hooked (it happens often), then the cable will serve as a safety line, thanks to which you can easily pull out the hooked anchor.

How it works

Behind the trend, you need to tie a cable and pass it through the check, which is located in the hole at the end of the trend. If necessary, when the anchor is hooked, the cable must be pulled in the opposite direction of the spindle, while the check will break, thereby freeing the anchor.

There is a method of fastening the checks, with which it will be possible to pull the cable in any direction, not necessarily opposite to the direction of the spindle, only with great effort. To do this, you need to fix the check not on the trend, but on the cable. Also, a rope (cable) is attached to the cable, which will be closed on the trend and form a loop.

As a check, you can use a wire bent into a circle and a fishing line, and a polymer collar is also perfect, which can be easily purchased at any hardware store. Also pay attention to the fact that the check can be used not one, but several at once, and thus the breaking force will increase.

You need to know that there are two types of setting checks, each of them has its own gap strength:

sliding installation requires a sharp increase, if you pull smoothly, the boat at that time will stand in the wrong direction. The breaking load of the sliding installation is 10-15 kg, no more.
Fixed installation. With this setting, the check should not be destroyed by the force of the drift of the vessel. To break the pin, a breaking force of 30–40 kg is required. It is possible to destroy a pin with such a breaking force using an outboard motor. The pushing force of the motor at full speed with a power of 2.5l.s. is 50 kg. Both methods are not bad, however, the method of a cable with a float (Buirep) remains the best.