Like so many specialized boating techniques, the use of an anchor ball won’t apply to all boaters. In fact, it won’t apply to most boaters. But if you’re tired of pulling up the anchor by hand, just don’t want a windlass, anchor in water too deep for the amount of rode your anchor locker can hold, or simply want to learn a technique for helping to retrieve an anchor that’s snagged, check out this brief outline describing how to use an anchor ball.
THE PRINCIPLE If one were to tie a line to a weight, toss the line over a tree branch, and then walk away while holding the line, the weight would rise, right? In using an anchor ball, the buoyancy of the float—it’s most often a polyball, but…
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Boating (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2021