{"id":16171,"date":"2011-05-11T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=16171"},"modified":"2011-05-10T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:05:30","slug":"using-a-kedge-anchor-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/using-a-kedge-anchor-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Using A Kedge Anchor – Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thinking we were a little short on kedging details in our recent post we decided to give it another whirl. You see before you a plot of our course as we came south from our overnight anchorage in Lake Sylvia. The turn off for the New River, where a side tie awaited us, is a bit tricky and we were past it before we realized the error. In the process of turning around we drifted out of the channel, and hard aground, in a falling tide.<\/p>\n
TowBoats US was quickly on the spot and generously offered a discounted tow for US$1000. We declined in favor of trying to kedge off, the engines being unable to do the job on their own.<\/p>\n
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The Fortress FX85 kedge is now more accessible as are the other elements of the system and we quickly had the dinghy in the water and the kedge set.<\/p>\n
It took three tries, the third being successful where the others failed because of the angle of pull, which rotated the keel out of the trap which held it.<\/p>\n
Now a few details.<\/p>\n
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The 250 foot\/75m 1\/2″ (12.6mm) Spectra rode is flaked into a spinnaker “turtle” as you can see above. Note the figure eight flake which insures free runout.<\/p>\n
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The kedge is now stored with its chain section attached where it is ready to deploy.<\/p>\n
The system we will use the next time this occurs is the following:<\/p>\n
A few other items to note:<\/p>\n
The observant amongst you may have noted a certain curl in one of the flukes and a bent cross bar. We were happy to find \u00a0out that the Fortress anchor is guaranteed. “Bring it by and we will replace it” was the comment.<\/p>\n
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