Ditto - I know it's small, but PLEASE no more plastic waste into the ocean! You could also use a trip-line with a float if your anchor gets stuck often.
Could run a cable from eye to eye on the anchor, with a ring on the cable to the anchor line. If it hangs just pull it back to the bottom of the anchor and jerk it free
Okay, just found you guys tonight. And here's what happened... This old salt who's boated a lot in my younger days just watched two young ladies give a boating lesson for riding rough seas. I did it for grind and giggles. But, I learned an important navigation lesson! Now, I watch a second video and learn two really cool anchor tips! My ego has been firmly placed in check and I am truly humbled and impressed. Great job on both videos ladies and thank you so much for the education! I'll keep watching and learning!
Great tutorial, thanks, ladies. Only one remark: you keep filling the sea with broken zip lines... they're functional, but almost everlasting nylon will keep them floating for hundreds of years, or until a fish swallows it. I suggest you trade them for cotton lines. They'll have the same effectiveness, but degrade in weeks.
@Dave DDM They're not biodegradable. They just break into very tiny fragments, also harmfull. And remember to try to answer without being unpolite, bigot.
Come on, if all the boaters in Florida used this method, all their daily combined zip tie sea discards would not add up to 1/4 of 1 commercial net that's probably discarded by the commercial boats by every minute. The girls or a few random boats are not doing anything that will harm the sea.
Awesome video. Been a captain for 10 years. Very refreshing to watch you girls give great, clear, and concise information. Covered all the steps. And nice splices!
I love youtube. It's the only place I know of where people come to watch videos of things they know nothing about and then tell the people in the video everything they are doing wrong.
Great video! I'd like to add a suggestion: When placing the ring around the rope (3:12), make sure to have clipped the carabiner on one of ring's loops and then once the ring is on the rope, you hook the other ring. This will prevent the ring from sinking if you accidentally drop it while trying to put it on the rope (speaking from experience) haha
Do the marine world a favor when setting your zip tie put a second tie around the tag end of the original tie secured it to the anchor shaft or the anchor ring! This way you will retain the broken zip tie to the anchor and can properly dispose of this garbage top side! Still have the same functionality and yet be clean mitigating litter in the ocean! You should modify your otherwise great video demonstration to include this improvement. Pro tip from #SeattleRingHunter
Agreed. Even some light gauge twitching wire will break easily enough if it has to and will rust away in no time. Please don't use plastic as a sacrificial fastener
Great job on the video ladies, for me once I discovered a trolling motor I rarely ever use my anchor anymore. Gone is the ball and pulling up all that line. Now all I do is turn off the switch and raise the trolling motor and I'm gone. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for introducing me to an interesting product! I wish I'd had one of those 2 months ago when my anchor snagged an unmarked illegal 2000 lb mooring. That was a frustrating adventure that you could have saved me from. But this video shows a couple of things that could catch your viewers by surprise: - A good anchor should be able to withstand veering under load. And, indeed, withstand load. Your ziptie arrangement will cause the anchor to trip if the wind shifts. Or to trip even without a wind shift if you don't have lots of scope. Only ok for a lunch hook (my own preference is to try to always use best practices, so I can discover problems with my technique while I'm awake and the sun is up). - If you're doing this ziptie thing, the anchor will trip when you weigh in any case, even without the buoy thing, won't it? - Some anchors have "rock slots", which allow the shackle to slide from end to end along the shank, so backing over the anchor will help with retrieval, but the anchor should still reset if it needs to. But afaik all the anchors with rock slots don't perform nearly as well as the best anchors. - Rocky bottoms are tough. Grapnels will *sometimes* hold ok if the rocks happen to be just the right size, and are beyond useless in any other bottom. The emerging consensus seems to be that the best anchors these days are Excel and Spade (e.g. check out the awesome youtube anchor test series by S. V. Panope). - While a ziptie used like this is dangerous, most people would advise a ziptie (or etc) mousing the shackle. - Mixing stainless steel with galvanised steel (mixing metals generally) in salt water will *eventually* lead to galvanic problems. It will take a while, but it's worth watching out for.
Excellent points, Ben, all of them! I'd add one more suggestion to the list: serious fishermen around here all use weighted rope for their anchor lines, so if they have to cut them in rough weather, the line doesn't sneak its way back up to the surface at a later date and bight onto some other boat's prop or foul their gear.
@@timapple6586 I disagree! - Almost all anchor rodes are nylon and/or chain. Those sink anyway, so weights wouldn't change much. Floating ropes such as polyethylene and dyneema don't absorb shock loads, and thus make terrible anchor rodes. Do people in your area use those? Or under what conditions does nylon float? - Anything you set out with and don't return with is pollution. The only tolerable exceptions are rapidly biodegradable (I guess natural fibres like cotton or hemp will break down eventually, and nobody uses those). What happens if people leave messes and don't clean them up? Further down this thread, people are pointing out that zip ties are pollution, but that's nothing compared to a rode, nor the risk of fouling someone else's discarded anchor. - There's also a selfish reason to make sure your rode floats: anchors are expensive. Unless you're just tying a rope around a rock, you'll probably not want to lose it permanently. Retrieval requires a floating rode or a diver. - Because this ever more desperately urgent I'll speculate further. By now we've all heard far more than we want to about how we have to stop burning fossil fuels---we've known for over half a century that this is urgent! Do you suppose there's any chance that the risk of fouling a propeller might sway someone away from choosing a motorboat and towards a sailboat or rowboat etc, or even just slowing down to see obstacles in the water (like divers, turtles, whatever)? That would be a win for all of humanity. This is probably a tiny effect, but perhaps if we all talk about it incessantly we will be able to transition slightly more gracefully than if half of us don't talk about it for another 5 years. Of course, some people have electric motors... so this is a bit of a tricky one.
Love the idea of having an anchor in a basket just for bottom fishing. I’m tired of working the anchor from the bow and dealing with all the rope. I’m def going to try this method!!
Excellent video ladies! This is one method I use to single hand my 50' MY. I can have my 65 pound Mantus anchor with 40 meters of 3/8" chain out and this method still works. An old salty captain taught me this, and at first, I did not believe it could work with such a heavy anchor and chain. There are other methods as well, but trying to weigh anchor single handed from a flybridge on a big boat can lead to disaster. With this method, I know where my chain is and end up facing it with the buoy indicating where it is. Then I can use the windlass to bring it in without damaging the windlass. Well done!
Not that I'm a tree hugger, but using a zip tie is still putting plastic in the rivers and oceans, Try cooking string - made from cotton, will breakdown much faster. also, your ball rope was closer to 4". Great information, love what you're doing!!
Great system . There are some variations to your method but the principle is the same , i like it because it Saves your back and shoulders . we have used similar method for over 15 years . Suprising how many people still lift their anchors by hand when there is such an easy method available.
I have the same anchor ball with one difference. Tied to the ball is a mechanism that only lets the ball travel down the line. Yours is better because you attach it only when you're ready to pull the anchor. Mine needs to be on the anchor line. The advantage mine has is that you can leave your anchor fast in the event you need to chase a fish. Mine will also not leave the anchor, so with no tension it floats the anchor even in rough seas. PNW fisherman so anything less than 4 ft seas is a blessing. 6ft is pretty much normal. In the end both systems have their advantage. Your demonstration was perfect.
Great to see you gals sharing so much real practical information with everyone. It took years for me to learn a lot of this stuff before the days of the internet. What a goldmine for young boaters/fishermen starting out. Thanks!
Pull your boat up slighty. With your hand or boat hook p/u the line and tie it to your rear davit. Then hook your ball on to the anchor line. drive straight, pops the anchor up. That way you dont have to get on the bow
9:27 use a second zip tie to tie the remaining tag end to the shackle to secure it to the anchor system after it breaks so you don't have another piece of plastic garbage in our ocean people! Thank you.
Very informative I have been using anchor balls same way for over 40 years. Living on NC outer banks wreck fishing can be a real struggle with anchor retrieval. The ball takes the work out of it even floating it off entanglement of wreck. Keep up the great videos I thoroughly enjoy them!!
a simple loop of bailing wire would do the same and if you just tie one side firmly around the chain and the other side just wrap tightly against the anchor it should be reusable for some time and if lost its just iron.
For a short rock anchor stop, why not keep it simple, attach your rode to the main anchor shackle and on a long line (about the depth of the water) attach your float to the crown, then simply pick up the bouy and pull in. No plastic left in the ocean.
@Matt Diamond Weird... I ALWAYS see them running the boat. Never a man. Are you assuming this? Love the channel and the knowledge I've gained from here.
Fantastic! I'm not a huge fisherman but I have been around a few years and I've never heard of an anchor ball, that's awesome, very clever, you girls know your stuff! I have to say, cuteness overload! 🥰
I use the same trip method on my grapple anchor when fishing on my kayak. Never realized bigger boats/ anchors use this method too. Works wonders and saved me a few anchors. Awesome advice girls!
I do a fair bit of anchored halibut fishing in 200-350ft of water off Vancouver Island. We deal with freighter traffic and strong currents. Use of a bow stern line is very common. A bow stern line runs from your bow eye to a stern cleat. It allows the anchor line to slide forward at anchor and to the stern when pulling making it harder to run over the anchor line and quick to ditch your anchor. I used to pull 600ft of line with a little 16fter and a bow stern line.
aww I just found your channel. I read the channel name as "Gale Force Winds" by accident so I was shocked. The fact that you're twins makes me so happy, I don't talk too much to my siblings and I love seeing young adult siblings who are still in touch with each other and hang out
Emily & Amanda are very impressive young ladies, that any man would be proud to call their daughters. Y'all put out some very informative videos. I am a Master Operator Boat Captain for 45 years. I have been using this system on center console boats for years & it does work great. I would like to suggest 1 detail change , take the anchor line & tie it off to the stern to prevent running over the line, especially in choppy water.
We lost our ring in Katchemac bay using a clip carabiner like the one your using. We switched and are now using a screw down type carabiner. This anchor raising technique works perfectly!
I believe there is a way to connect a pinch clamp to hold the chain to the anchor and when it gets stuck it would pull the chain out of the clamp. A trip to the hard ware store may save leaving plastic in the ocean. Great concept!
Isn't it amazing how people of all ages think nothing of sharing this type of experience with the world? Way too much meaningless drivel online, but these types of gems are priceless. Keep up the good work.
Great idea girls. I nearly clicked through as I was expecting another male vlogger mumbling his way through a script. How refreshing. I love it when girls really rock this kind of man-stuff. I taught my daughter how to weld (40 years ago) and other boy-stuff so that she did not need to rely on boys for help. She sometimes turned up at home with one or two beardless youths and a broken dirt bike for me to fix though. Happy days.
Hello young lady skippers. We also use this method in SA. It is one of the easiest ways to get the anchor up without a windlass/ winch. If you don't want to use a zip tie then use the copper from electric cord that serves as a trip. We used to use that before zip ties. Again nice informative video.
@Bruce Peters That's a great idea, I was going to suggest to the ladies that they switch over to cotton shoelaces but I like your idea better. The important thing is they're leaving things as they found them by not littering.
Excellent video. I grew up fishing the grouper reef about 22mi west of Ozona. That was in 50s-60s and danforths were more prevalent then. Your grapple hook anchor, espec the way you rig it, is far better. Few people realize that boats may end up sunk and people drowned when a sudden summer Gulf squall comes onto you and you can't get the anchor unstuck from the rocks. That happened to some Bucs football players. When they tried brute force in reverse to free the anchor, that pulled the anchor line so tight it held the bow down, so the next big wave just rolled over the boat, filling and sinking it. Far far better to ditch the anchor and line than to chance keeping a taut line in rough seas. I have gone down an anchor line hand under hand to free the anchor. But the squall was coming but not on us yet. Even then I found it difficult to hold onto the line, and the anchor was jerking around, so I was careful where I put my hand. The current and changing up and down of the boat caused the line to whip constantly. I kept an iron grip going up. Would never ever do that again. We made it thru Hurricane Pass and ran up on lee side of what we called then Hog Island (the N isle). Anyhow, you ladies are showing a great rig that can save lives, not to mention "make you pray" stress. Wonderful videos. You have the best boating videos on youtube. Thank you for all the productive work you surely must put into them.
We do a lot of wreck and tuna chunking around the northeast coast. Switched to locking carabiners from the Snap Link style. the snap pops off she times, and you'll see the ball floating away... Ugh! An extra ball to clip into the anchor rode lets you dump your ground tackle while running to retrieve the lost ball. I like to run up sea, create some slack, and then tie off to the stern cleat. My buddy runs like you folks do, dragging against the chock, which eventually leaves me with some fiberglass work after the bolts crack the forward railing, knocking out a nice chunk of glass. This also makes it very difficult to catch your rode in the wheels, though its likely I could still mess that up, without enough sleep or coffee. Awesome tutorial, and great to see siblings having fun, and rocking it at sea. Good on you two!
Once anchor pops, it's off the seabed in the same way it would if you are directly above it. The only way it drags is if you arent using a big enough float, in that case you're right it could def damage seafloor
This is a great video to show the importance of scope. The anchor ball is reducing the scope and the weight of the chain to the point that the anchor is no longer laying flat. Love these instructional videos.
Easy peazy lemon squeezy y'all made me laugh. Its great to see two young female captains doing there thing. You ladies are paving the way for young female angers and i think its great keep up the amazing videos.
Wow. What a great video. I'm a lake fisherman in Oklahoma and I fish at a large lake with a rocky bottom. I've lost anchor after anchor by getting them wedged in a submerged boulder field. I am going to start using the trip method when rigging my anchors. The only thing I am concerend about is knowing how much pressure my cleats can withstand? Have you guys ever pulled a cleat? Thank you guys so much! You saved me $$$$ by sharing this video and I truly appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge. Thank you girls!
Great information about the anchor line to know so whenever I get the boat that I want, then maybe we can all go fishing lol, Have a blessed day today and enjoy it, be safe and happy.
Well done video and effective anchor retrieval method but is there another fastener to use instead of the zip tie that would not pollute the waterway and end up killing wildlife?
Great job Captains! Funny story, When living in St. Thomas, were were cruising over to Jost Van Dyke, and heard via VHF radio, a "Moorings bare bones charter catamaran" calling back to their homeport in Tortola asking if someone could send a boat out to their position at Waterlemon Cay to deliver a few more anchors. As they have used all three of them. The Moorings radio dispatcher started to treat this as a distress call, thinking that 3 anchors were not holding the boat. Later in the reply transmission the charter boat explained to the dispatcher that they did not know that they were supposed to de-anchor upon departure from their last 3 moorings, and had been just untying the anchor line and leaving the anchor and anchor line behind...... Me thinks they lost their deposit as well.
That is excellent‼️‼️ 1 bad comment-don’t use the zip tie. Use something less harmful to the ocean, cotton-jute. It will degrade fast-OR- tape the end of the zip tie to the anchor that way it comes out of the water when it breaks during recovery. Great work gals
.makes sense the ball but no sense the zip tie .1 is plastic pollution. 2 could brake when u are actually using the anchor and instead of keeping u anchored comes off with load and u start drifting with the anchor hanging to the boat lifted the other side
Hello! This video is well edited and informative. This is the 2nd "how to" video of yours that I've watched .. new subscriber now. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks for the video. Are there any non-zip tie options you can suggest? We have a lot of dugongs and sea turtles near us and want to make as little impact as possible.
Use short pieces of hemp gardening twine. Tie them in a reef knot, it will break. If it’s windy use two or three pieces of twine. No plastic in the water! Well made video though with good information as always!
Very cool info, ladies! One thing to make it more educational would be to use true nautical terms. The “rope” hooked to the anchor is called the “anchor rode”. I do like the technique. It’s not as functional if your in a group of boats. Ana in, thanks!
Are those zip ties biodegradable? Hope so...hate to think every time you (and all the other boats that use them) pop pieces of plastic off in the ocean.
You are gonna be really popular in a tight anchorage doing this. Not sure I would sleep well using this technique for anchoring overnight, but for day, probably fine. I had to dive to free my anchor twice in 10 years; fortunately I liked to anchor in shallow water.
Nice video girls but we always go forward a bit & loop the rope to the back cleat. That way you can go straight over the anchor line instead of In an arc, avoiding catching your chain around the bommie your anchored on & getting a straight lift.
You guys are great! I have three girls and send them your vids all the time. While I DO NOT subscribe to an over whelming amount of sea turtles being injured by plastic straws, we do what we can. Suggestion on attaching chain to anchor. Use 2 zip ties. One for the chain and the other to keep the first zip tie attached to the anchor. This will reduce plastic pollution every time you pop the anchor. Or...... use wire as it will biodegrade a lot faster than plastic zip tie. Keep up the great vids. Your parents should be proud. Capt G
We use a similar type of anchor, but the barbs are made of a less rigid metal, that way in case it's needed the anchor's barbs bend back. But this was very educational, thanks. I enjoy these types of videos
South Africans fisherman have been using this method at least since the 1980. But then again the Southern hemisphere is light years ahead of the North as most of them use fishing catamarans .
Great vid, well explained but echo the zip tie comments, loads of other environmentally friendly way of doing the same thing. Please stop using zip ties.
@@mvakleko “Eco-friendly” zip ties are made of recycled plastic and are recyclable, if ever found on land and put in a recycling bin. But when underwater, they still remain made of plastic that dissolves like any other plastic-made objects. “Biodegradable is not better for the environment, it just means the plastic will breakdown into small, in most cases more harmful fragments. All plastic will biodegrade eventually, and still poses a threat to the local environment, this is just greenwashing a marketing technique used to make people feel like they are doing the right thing.-Emma.”
All the comments about the shameful use of zip ties and the environmental damage from using twin 250 outboards are valid. What about using a grapple anchor to hook onto reef? Isn't that another way to destroy the very habitat that fish depend upon?
No. This is the most environmentally friendly way to retrieve an anchor from a reef. As far as the zip ties walk down any beach & look at the trash. If you’re that eco minded invent a biodegradable zip tie instead of wining
It is cool others noticed the issue using a PLASTIC zip tie that will be left in the ocean. Great video. I am going to use your technique and the anchor ball...Cheers
I'm assuming this anchor is just used for fishing and not for longer use like overnight. Because I don't want a ziptie being the only thing keeping me from drifting into someone else's boat or onto the beach.
Great video ladies and glad to see how much you love fishing and boating 👏 . My daughter is 2 now and hopefully when she gets a little older she will be next to me fishing. Keep it up and put those haters to rest, they’re jealous because they suck at fishing. Tight lines!
Do you ladies do charters by any chance. I would love to bring my daughters down to the keys and charter you ladies. We are from boynton beach Florida and i charter boats in the keys at least 10 times a year
The day I don't have property tax, income tax, sales tax, car tax, will be the day i give two shits about some plastic in the ocean. I give the government to much money for them to not clean the trash up.
@@CooterPotPie So, instead of practicing personal responsibility, you want the government to take care of the problems caused by thoughtless/careless people? And then you whine about having to pay taxes! How Republican of you. Where in the US Constitution, or any state constitution, does it say that government has the responsibility to clean up after filthy citizens?
@@gatoryak7332 it's good to know that a democrat ( i'm assuming since you insinuated i'm republican) doesn't care about getting double taxed for your money to be mismanage. Its clear what the problem here is, you're poorly informed/ misinformed about environmental and political issues. Thus you allot your disapproval in the wrong entities. Over 90% of the USA's plastic problem comes from rivers, commercial fishing, contracted waste shipping and inclement weather, all things either owned or regulated by the government. So yeah, I expect the government not to operate like a God damn pimp.
@@CooterPotPie Wow! I wish that I could comprehend what was going through your mind (other than alcohol) when you wrote that. Maybe then I could understand how it relates to your first comment and my response to it. Pro tip: Sober up or shut up.
Yes agree with the plastic issue. Also if you get a wind/current shift, you’re going to pop you tie. And pull your anchor out. (Assuming it’s wedged. Otherwise great video! Thanks. BTW I am an identical twin!
Great video. My only suggestion is to always keep the carabiner attached to one of the clip-in spots on the anchor ring. You can still run rope through the gap and you won’t lose the ring if you accidentally drop it.
The whole point of running the carabinier through both eyelets in the ring is to keep the rope from being able to slip back out of the gap. You install the rope through the gap them block the gap with the carabinier.....if you just put it through one eyelet you'll probably lose your buoy.
Thanx so much girls. I never use mine cuz i thought you had to drive straight opposite, and worried about like you said the rope getting in the motor. But that going around is sweet.
Wow! I thought this was the first thing everyone did when learning to set an anchor! I learned about how to use a buoy when I was like 9 or something. With as many boats I see having Danforth anchors, how the hell do they get them back up without a buoy? Drive around the damn thing forever?? Common sense is not so common any more I guess.
In rocky bottoms I use two ropes, each one attached to one point of the anchor. One is attached to the boat and the other attached to a buoy that I leave drifting. If I don't manage to remove the anchor attached to the boat then I get the buoy rope and pull it in an opposite direction of the boat rope now also attached to another buoy. It always worked with me.
Great video.. As a father of three daughters, I absolutely love your videos... you young ladies are great. You taught this old dog a new trick.
You might want to use a bit of cotton thread or light hemp twine instead of a plastic zip tie. Cheers.
there's enough plastic in the ocean
Knew this comment would be here..
Ditto - I know it's small, but PLEASE no more plastic waste into the ocean! You could also use a trip-line with a float if your anchor gets stuck often.
Could run a cable from eye to eye on the anchor, with a ring on the cable to the anchor line.
If it hangs just pull it back to the bottom of the anchor and jerk it free
They make biodegradable zip ties.
Okay, just found you guys tonight. And here's what happened... This old salt who's boated a lot in my younger days just watched two young ladies give a boating lesson for riding rough seas. I did it for grind and giggles. But, I learned an important navigation lesson! Now, I watch a second video and learn two really cool anchor tips! My ego has been firmly placed in check and I am truly humbled and impressed. Great job on both videos ladies and thank you so much for the education! I'll keep watching and learning!
Great tutorial, thanks, ladies. Only one remark: you keep filling the sea with broken zip lines... they're functional, but almost everlasting nylon will keep them floating for hundreds of years, or until a fish swallows it. I suggest you trade them for cotton lines. They'll have the same effectiveness, but degrade in weeks.
@Dave DDM They're not biodegradable. They just break into very tiny fragments, also harmfull. And remember to try to answer without being unpolite, bigot.
Come on, if all the boaters in Florida used this method, all their daily combined zip tie sea discards would not add up to 1/4 of 1 commercial net that's probably discarded by the commercial boats by every minute. The girls or a few random boats are not doing anything that will harm the sea.
@@SaltwaterOutlaw Whatever we can do to reduce pollution, the better. As per discarding commercial nets, it is an absurd that should be banned.
I'm not gonna have to ponder what ever happened to the kids who volunteered for hall monitor duty anymore
@@FXPL9277 I don't think you got his joke...
Awesome video. Been a captain for 10 years. Very refreshing to watch you girls give great, clear, and concise information. Covered all the steps. And nice splices!
That is some really nice marlin spike splicing. Bravo Zulu.
I love youtube. It's the only place I know of where people come to watch videos of things they know nothing about and then tell the people in the video everything they are doing wrong.
Great video!
I'd like to add a suggestion: When placing the ring around the rope (3:12), make sure to have clipped the carabiner on one of ring's loops and then once the ring is on the rope, you hook the other ring. This will prevent the ring from sinking if you accidentally drop it while trying to put it on the rope (speaking from experience) haha
Came here to say exactly this!
Safety trick I learned rockclimbing to always protect against a drop.
Do the marine world a favor when setting your zip tie put a second tie around the tag end of the original tie secured it to the anchor shaft or the anchor ring! This way you will retain the broken zip tie to the anchor and can properly dispose of this garbage top side! Still have the same functionality and yet be clean mitigating litter in the ocean! You should modify your otherwise great video demonstration to include this improvement. Pro tip from #SeattleRingHunter
Excellent, exactly what I was going to post. I add a little electrical tape on the "anchor" zip tie
Just use a anchor winch
Use a www.seahalt.com anchor and forget the zip ties...
Rocco 117 shit can still get stuck dude
Agreed. Even some light gauge twitching wire will break easily enough if it has to and will rust away in no time. Please don't use plastic as a sacrificial fastener
Great job on the video ladies, for me once I discovered a trolling motor I rarely ever use my anchor anymore. Gone is the ball and pulling up all that line. Now all I do is turn off the switch and raise the trolling motor and I'm gone. Keep up the good work!
excellent presentation. I could have used that a couple of times that i have had to let the anchor go
Thanks for introducing me to an interesting product! I wish I'd had one of those 2 months ago when my anchor snagged an unmarked illegal 2000 lb mooring. That was a frustrating adventure that you could have saved me from. But this video shows a couple of things that could catch your viewers by surprise:
- A good anchor should be able to withstand veering under load. And, indeed, withstand load. Your ziptie arrangement will cause the anchor to trip if the wind shifts. Or to trip even without a wind shift if you don't have lots of scope. Only ok for a lunch hook (my own preference is to try to always use best practices, so I can discover problems with my technique while I'm awake and the sun is up).
- If you're doing this ziptie thing, the anchor will trip when you weigh in any case, even without the buoy thing, won't it?
- Some anchors have "rock slots", which allow the shackle to slide from end to end along the shank, so backing over the anchor will help with retrieval, but the anchor should still reset if it needs to. But afaik all the anchors with rock slots don't perform nearly as well as the best anchors.
- Rocky bottoms are tough. Grapnels will *sometimes* hold ok if the rocks happen to be just the right size, and are beyond useless in any other bottom. The emerging consensus seems to be that the best anchors these days are Excel and Spade (e.g. check out the awesome youtube anchor test series by S. V. Panope).
- While a ziptie used like this is dangerous, most people would advise a ziptie (or etc) mousing the shackle.
- Mixing stainless steel with galvanised steel (mixing metals generally) in salt water will *eventually* lead to galvanic problems. It will take a while, but it's worth watching out for.
Excellent points, Ben, all of them! I'd add one more suggestion to the list: serious fishermen around here all use weighted rope for their anchor lines, so if they have to cut them in rough weather, the line doesn't sneak its way back up to the surface at a later date and bight onto some other boat's prop or foul their gear.
@@timapple6586 I disagree!
- Almost all anchor rodes are nylon and/or chain. Those sink anyway, so weights wouldn't change much. Floating ropes such as polyethylene and dyneema don't absorb shock loads, and thus make terrible anchor rodes. Do people in your area use those? Or under what conditions does nylon float?
- Anything you set out with and don't return with is pollution. The only tolerable exceptions are rapidly biodegradable (I guess natural fibres like cotton or hemp will break down eventually, and nobody uses those). What happens if people leave messes and don't clean them up? Further down this thread, people are pointing out that zip ties are pollution, but that's nothing compared to a rode, nor the risk of fouling someone else's discarded anchor.
- There's also a selfish reason to make sure your rode floats: anchors are expensive. Unless you're just tying a rope around a rock, you'll probably not want to lose it permanently. Retrieval requires a floating rode or a diver.
- Because this ever more desperately urgent I'll speculate further. By now we've all heard far more than we want to about how we have to stop burning fossil fuels---we've known for over half a century that this is urgent! Do you suppose there's any chance that the risk of fouling a propeller might sway someone away from choosing a motorboat and towards a sailboat or rowboat etc, or even just slowing down to see obstacles in the water (like divers, turtles, whatever)? That would be a win for all of humanity. This is probably a tiny effect, but perhaps if we all talk about it incessantly we will be able to transition slightly more gracefully than if half of us don't talk about it for another 5 years. Of course, some people have electric motors... so this is a bit of a tricky one.
They are just anchoring to fish. Not to sleep or leave the boat unattended.
Love the idea of having an anchor in a basket just for bottom fishing. I’m tired of working the anchor from the bow and dealing with all the rope. I’m def going to try this method!!
Yes!! It’s a must :)
Excellent video ladies! This is one method I use to single hand my 50' MY. I can have my 65 pound Mantus anchor with 40 meters of 3/8" chain out and this method still works. An old salty captain taught me this, and at first, I did not believe it could work with such a heavy anchor and chain. There are other methods as well, but trying to weigh anchor single handed from a flybridge on a big boat can lead to disaster. With this method, I know where my chain is and end up facing it with the buoy indicating where it is. Then I can use the windlass to bring it in without damaging the windlass. Well done!
Thank you very much!!
Not that I'm a tree hugger, but using a zip tie is still putting plastic in the rivers and oceans, Try cooking string - made from cotton, will breakdown much faster. also, your ball rope was closer to 4". Great information, love what you're doing!!
4” ? Looked more like 4’ to me
I think "Get a life" springs to mind.
Please don’t use plastic.
I use a re- useable stainless spring clip for my release
@@2534will a spring clip! have to that in action
Great system . There are some variations to your method but the principle is the same , i like it because it Saves your back and shoulders . we have used similar method for over 15 years . Suprising how many people still lift their anchors by hand when there is such an easy method available.
I have the same anchor ball with one difference. Tied to the ball is a mechanism that only lets the ball travel down the line. Yours is better because you attach it only when you're ready to pull the anchor. Mine needs to be on the anchor line. The advantage mine has is that you can leave your anchor fast in the event you need to chase a fish. Mine will also not leave the anchor, so with no tension it floats the anchor even in rough seas. PNW fisherman so anything less than 4 ft seas is a blessing. 6ft is pretty much normal. In the end both systems have their advantage. Your demonstration was perfect.
Definitely makes sense! We set up our anchor ball that way when we go tarpon fishing!
Great to see you gals sharing so much real practical information with everyone. It took years for me to learn a lot of this stuff before the days of the internet. What a goldmine for young boaters/fishermen starting out. Thanks!
Pull your boat up slighty. With your hand or boat hook p/u the line and tie it to your rear davit. Then hook your ball on to the anchor line. drive straight, pops the anchor up. That way you dont have to get on the bow
9:27 use a second zip tie to tie the remaining tag end to the shackle to secure it to the anchor system after it breaks so you don't have another piece of plastic garbage in our ocean people! Thank you.
If you use 3/8 shafts on your anchor .. the shafts bends when you pulling up , and is not neccesary to use plastic tie
Very informative I have been using anchor balls same way for over 40 years. Living on NC outer banks wreck fishing can be a real struggle with anchor retrieval. The ball takes the work out of it even floating it off entanglement of wreck. Keep up the great videos I thoroughly enjoy them!!
Use a reef anchor stainless steel . Holds really well and bends when you pull to release if from the sea bed better that zip ties in the ocean
a simple loop of bailing wire would do the same and if you just tie one side firmly around the chain and the other side just wrap tightly against the anchor it should be reusable for some time and if lost its just iron.
@@rdh1001 indeed, that's how we do it in Morocco's off-coast
Marine zip ties are biodegradable. They're made for exactly this. It's not your zip tie from Home Depot.
For a short rock anchor stop, why not keep it simple, attach your rode to the main anchor shackle and on a long line (about the depth of the water) attach your float to the crown, then simply pick up the bouy and pull in. No plastic left in the ocean.
Good work Captains way to inform others about anchoring with a grapple and using an anchor ball definitely makes life easy!!! Tight lines
i dont like the idea of the zip tie being in the water .. isn't the same as throwing plastic in the ocean ??
A zip tie in the ocean
Bro....fuck off
You can probably do two zip ties together, one on the Chain one on the anchor. When one breaks it will hold the other probably
really like this nice instructional video! will the zip tie method work with Danforth or other style anchor?
@@AquaCul2Ryes it will
You girls are awesome at explaining everything!
That's the best vid I have seen on explaining how an anchor ball works.Plus the idea of releasing a stuck anchor.
It appears to me that you girls have been either taught very good by someone or y’all have done a lot of homework and research. Great video!
Now if they would stop calling it rope that would make my day. Haha. It’s Line on a boat, rope is for tying stuff up on shore.
@Matt Do you really are pathetic
@Matt Diamond Weird... I ALWAYS see them running the boat. Never a man. Are you assuming this? Love the channel and the knowledge I've gained from here.
Matt Diamond do your research,both of these young ladies are certified captains.
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Fantastic! I'm not a huge fisherman but I have been around a few years and I've never heard of an anchor ball, that's awesome, very clever, you girls know your stuff!
I have to say, cuteness overload! 🥰
I use the same trip method on my grapple anchor when fishing on my kayak. Never realized bigger boats/ anchors use this method too. Works wonders and saved me a few anchors. Awesome advice girls!
I do a fair bit of anchored halibut fishing in 200-350ft of water off Vancouver Island. We deal with freighter traffic and strong currents. Use of a bow stern line is very common. A bow stern line runs from your bow eye to a stern cleat. It allows the anchor line to slide forward at anchor and to the stern when pulling making it harder to run over the anchor line and quick to ditch your anchor. I used to pull 600ft of line with a little 16fter and a bow stern line.
I use the bow/stern line also on my 16 ft Hourston glasscraft boat. Safety first.
aww I just found your channel. I read the channel name as "Gale Force Winds" by accident so I was shocked. The fact that you're twins makes me so happy, I don't talk too much to my siblings and I love seeing young adult siblings who are still in touch with each other and hang out
Emily & Amanda are very impressive young ladies, that any man would be proud to call their daughters. Y'all put out some very informative videos. I am a Master Operator Boat Captain for 45 years. I have been using this system on center console boats for years & it does work great. I would like to suggest 1 detail change , take the anchor line & tie it off to the stern to prevent running over the line, especially in choppy water.
Today I learned something. Thank you, lovely ladies.
We lost our ring in Katchemac bay using a clip carabiner like the one your using. We switched and are now using a screw down type carabiner. This anchor raising technique works perfectly!
I believe there is a way to connect a pinch clamp to hold the chain to the anchor and when it gets stuck it would pull the chain out of the clamp. A trip to the hard ware store may save leaving plastic in the ocean. Great concept!
So tedious this comment is.
@@JayKayKay7 FU
Aha. Another nuanced and well-reasoned response. Thank you for your suggestion. @@JLH1956
Isn't it amazing how people of all ages think nothing of sharing this type of experience with the world? Way too much meaningless drivel online, but these types of gems are priceless. Keep up the good work.
You guys have a great way of teaching.. thank you.. very clear instructions, easy to follow
Great idea girls. I nearly clicked through as I was expecting another male vlogger mumbling his way through a script. How refreshing. I love it when girls really rock this kind of man-stuff. I taught my daughter how to weld (40 years ago) and other boy-stuff so that she did not need to rely on boys for help. She sometimes turned up at home with one or two beardless youths and a broken dirt bike for me to fix though. Happy days.
Thank you!! We appreciate that very much! That’s pretty amazing that you taught your daughter welding.
I went to my local shop and they had no clue want an anchor ball is..
So I showed them your video
Hello young lady skippers. We also use this method in SA. It is one of the easiest ways to get the anchor up without a windlass/ winch. If you don't want to use a zip tie then use the copper from electric cord that serves as a trip. We used to use that before zip ties. Again nice informative video.
Thank you!
@Bruce Peters
That's a great idea, I was going to suggest to the ladies that they switch over to cotton shoelaces but I like your idea better. The important thing is they're leaving things as they found them by not littering.
We did that for years in Hawaii, especially good for when anchor gets stuck and you can't pull it in. Great for heavy anchors.
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Excellent video.
I grew up fishing the grouper reef about 22mi west of Ozona.
That was in 50s-60s and danforths were more prevalent then.
Your grapple hook anchor, espec the way you rig it, is far better.
Few people realize that boats may end up sunk and people drowned when a sudden summer Gulf squall comes onto you and you can't get the anchor unstuck from the rocks.
That happened to some Bucs football players.
When they tried brute force in reverse to free the anchor, that pulled the anchor line so tight it held the bow down, so the next big wave just rolled over the boat, filling and sinking it. Far far better to ditch the anchor and line than to chance keeping a taut line in rough seas.
I have gone down an anchor line hand under hand to free the anchor.
But the squall was coming but not on us yet. Even then I found it difficult to hold onto the line, and the anchor was jerking around, so I was careful where I put my hand. The current and changing up and down of the boat caused the line to whip constantly.
I kept an iron grip going up.
Would never ever do that again.
We made it thru Hurricane Pass and ran up on lee side of what we called then Hog Island (the N isle).
Anyhow, you ladies are showing a great rig that can save lives, not to mention "make you pray" stress.
Wonderful videos.
You have the best boating videos on youtube.
Thank you for all the productive work you surely must put into them.
Hi twins, you are a perfect team for a wonderful fishing crew, so young and so already expert.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy our videos :)
We do a lot of wreck and tuna chunking around the northeast coast.
Switched to locking carabiners from the Snap Link style.
the snap pops off she times, and you'll see the ball floating away... Ugh!
An extra ball to clip into the anchor rode lets you dump your ground tackle while running to retrieve the lost ball.
I like to run up sea, create some slack, and then tie off to the stern cleat.
My buddy runs like you folks do, dragging against the chock, which eventually leaves me with some fiberglass work after the bolts crack the forward railing, knocking out a nice chunk of glass.
This also makes it very difficult to catch your rode in the wheels, though its likely I could still mess that up, without enough sleep or coffee.
Awesome tutorial, and great to see siblings having fun, and rocking it at sea.
Good on you two!
So you recommend dragging the anchor chain around in a circle disturbing the sea bed ?
Once anchor pops, it's off the seabed in the same way it would if you are directly above it. The only way it drags is if you arent using a big enough float, in that case you're right it could def damage seafloor
The anchor rope is going in a circle not the anchor
they only do that during the day when all the fish arnt sleeping
This is a great video to show the importance of scope. The anchor ball is reducing the scope and the weight of the chain to the point that the anchor is no longer laying flat. Love these instructional videos.
Easy peazy lemon squeezy y'all made me laugh. Its great to see two young female captains doing there thing. You ladies are paving the way for young female angers and i think its great keep up the amazing videos.
Thanks gals I have an anchor ball and will get my kit ASAP. Great channel- my new fav!
You ladies deserve way more subs
Very much appreciated!! Thank you for watching our videos!
Wow. What a great video. I'm a lake fisherman in Oklahoma and I fish at a large lake with a rocky bottom. I've lost anchor after anchor by getting them wedged in a submerged boulder field. I am going to start using the trip method when rigging my anchors. The only thing I am concerend about is knowing how much pressure my cleats can withstand? Have you guys ever pulled a cleat? Thank you guys so much! You saved me $$$$ by sharing this video and I truly appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge. Thank you girls!
Great information about the anchor line to know so whenever I get the boat that I want, then maybe we can all go fishing lol, Have a blessed day today and enjoy it, be safe and happy.
Thank you! I am land locked at Texoma. Never have seen or been tought this!
This really helps me.
Well done video and effective anchor retrieval method but is there another fastener to use instead of the zip tie that would not pollute the waterway and end up killing wildlife?
Love your enthusiasm, however, I was using this technique way back in the 1980's, before you were even born.
First time I see Ladies who don't use the opportunity to showoff in bikini.
while I prefer it this way, their viewership will never grow like it would if they were to show off their bodies
Great job Captains! Funny story, When living in St. Thomas, were were cruising over to Jost Van Dyke, and heard via VHF radio, a "Moorings bare bones charter catamaran" calling back to their homeport in Tortola asking if someone could send a boat out to their position at Waterlemon Cay to deliver a few more anchors. As they have used all three of them. The Moorings radio dispatcher started to treat this as a distress call, thinking that 3 anchors were not holding the boat. Later in the reply transmission the charter boat explained to the dispatcher that they did not know that they were supposed to de-anchor upon departure from their last 3 moorings, and had been just untying the anchor line and leaving the anchor and anchor line behind...... Me thinks they lost their deposit as well.
OMG. I'm not a boater, but I don't think even I would have made that mistake (way too much if a cheap-wad 😂)
That is excellent‼️‼️
1 bad comment-don’t use the zip tie. Use something less harmful to the ocean, cotton-jute. It will degrade fast-OR- tape the end of the zip tie to the anchor that way it comes out of the water when it breaks during recovery.
Great work gals
exactly !
.makes sense the ball but no sense the zip tie .1 is plastic pollution. 2 could brake when u are actually using the anchor and instead of keeping u anchored comes off with load and u start drifting with the anchor hanging to the boat lifted the other side
U ladies are getting so much better in your demoes wish u the best zoro
When the anchor ball popped up it reminded me of the movie Jaws!
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Ditto
This is my first time watching your videos and I learned so much yall are awesome
Hello! This video is well edited and informative. This is the 2nd "how to" video of yours that I've watched .. new subscriber now. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks for subscribing and welcome to our channel!! We hope you enjoy our videos 🐟😊
love how you explain stupid simple. keep it up. Vets love it!
Thanks for the video. Are there any non-zip tie options you can suggest? We have a lot of dugongs and sea turtles near us and want to make as little impact as possible.
Use short pieces of hemp gardening twine. Tie them in a reef knot, it will break. If it’s windy use two or three pieces of twine. No plastic in the water!
Well made video though with good information as always!
Very cool info, ladies! One thing to make it more educational would be to use true nautical terms. The “rope” hooked to the anchor is called the “anchor rode”. I do like the technique. It’s not as functional if your in a group of boats. Ana in, thanks!
Are those zip ties biodegradable? Hope so...hate to think every time you (and all the other boats that use them) pop pieces of plastic off in the ocean.
Cotton string disintegrates fast
I’m sure your personally putting more plastic in the ocean than a zip tie
@@seabournewolf2298 but let’s not put more in than we have to!
This is a very clear, concise and practical video. Absolutely great job. I learned something new. Thanks, FD
Perfect! I actually hurt my back last weekend pulling the anchor and I was thinking, how will I do this in another 10 years when I’m old, lol.
So glad you found this video!!! Thanks for the feedback!
You'll do it the same way, and complain more. Take my word for it. 😄
Thank you for this video! I love learning new tricks. Video was very helpful.
Great tip on how to rig a tripping anchor except what happens to the zip-tie? More plastic pollution in the ocean for the fish to eat
Their advice is generally bad practice for: safe anchoring, damage to seabed and littering the ocean with zipties
You are gonna be really popular in a tight anchorage doing this. Not sure I would sleep well using this technique for anchoring overnight, but for day, probably fine. I had to dive to free my anchor twice in 10 years; fortunately I liked to anchor in shallow water.
They're not sleeping, they're fishing.
Nice video girls but we always go forward a bit & loop the rope to the back cleat. That way you can go straight over the anchor line instead of In an arc, avoiding catching your chain around the bommie your anchored on & getting a straight lift.
You guys are great! I have three girls and send them your vids all the time.
While I DO NOT subscribe to an over whelming amount of sea turtles being injured by plastic straws, we do what we can.
Suggestion on attaching chain to anchor. Use 2 zip ties. One for the chain and the other to keep the first zip tie attached to the anchor. This will reduce plastic pollution every time you pop the anchor. Or...... use wire as it will biodegrade a lot faster than plastic zip tie.
Keep up the great vids. Your parents should be proud.
Capt G
We use a similar type of anchor, but the barbs are made of a less rigid metal, that way in case it's needed the anchor's barbs bend back. But this was very educational, thanks. I enjoy these types of videos
From one old salt to two young salts, very well done! Tight lines always!
Good idea about the "trip method", any better idea about using a more environmental friendly tie such as jute, cotton rope?
In the Coast Guard we used jute twine. Used it to secure old fire hose around the mooring lines as chafing gear too.
South Africans fisherman have been using this method at least since the 1980. But then again the Southern hemisphere is light years ahead of the North as most of them use fishing catamarans .
We’ve been doing this in Alaska my whole life. I don’t think you’re ahead of us.
Great vid, well explained but echo the zip tie comments, loads of other environmentally friendly way of doing the same thing. Please stop using zip ties.
You can buy biodegradable zip ties.
@@mvakleko Didn't know they Make Eco-friendly Zip-ties..
@@mvakleko “Eco-friendly” zip ties are made of recycled plastic and are recyclable, if ever found on land and put in a recycling bin. But when underwater, they still remain made of plastic that dissolves like any other plastic-made objects. “Biodegradable is not better for the environment, it just means the plastic will breakdown into small, in most cases more harmful fragments. All plastic will biodegrade eventually, and still poses a threat to the local environment, this is just greenwashing a marketing technique used to make people feel like they are doing the right thing.-Emma.”
Best demonstration of this I’ve seen
So glad to hear that!
Dang it.I was going to learn to dive and resell lost anchors lols.
Thankyou for the demonstration..........maybe ill manufacture one myself . Good job lady's 👍
All the comments about the shameful use of zip ties and the environmental damage from using twin 250 outboards are valid. What about using a grapple anchor to hook onto reef? Isn't that another way to destroy the very habitat that fish depend upon?
No. This is the most environmentally friendly way to retrieve an anchor from a reef. As far as the zip ties walk down any beach & look at the trash. If you’re that eco minded invent a biodegradable zip tie instead of wining
@@randyruney5704 I already did. I call it 'cotton string'.
@@gatoryak7332 yes I use it for years it works fine and because I don’t want to feed the fish cotton I tight it to the main shaft of the anchor
It is cool others noticed the issue using a PLASTIC zip tie that will be left in the ocean. Great video. I am going to use your technique and the anchor ball...Cheers
I'm assuming this anchor is just used for fishing and not for longer use like overnight. Because I don't want a ziptie being the only thing keeping me from drifting into someone else's boat or onto the beach.
Yeh, well, it is a fishing boat, a fishing show, they have fishing rods, they are talking about fishing. So, yeh, this is for fishing.
Very helpful video! I bought my anchor ball kit and worked very well!!!
AMAZING :)
I’m concerned about having any type of tie released into the water. Particularly plastic zip ties. Otherwise love your thoughts and presentation.
Great video ladies and glad to see how much you love fishing and boating 👏 . My daughter is 2 now and hopefully when she gets a little older she will be next to me fishing. Keep it up and put those haters to rest, they’re jealous because they suck at fishing. Tight lines!
Thank you!! That’s so sweet 😊🐟
Do you ladies do charters by any chance. I would love to bring my daughters down to the keys and charter you ladies. We are from boynton beach Florida and i charter boats in the keys at least 10 times a year
Great ladies, learn something new every day. Thank you girls, stay safe
Use Gorilla brand duct tape to secure the tag end of the zip-tie to the shackle so hopefully it stays with the anchor when the break-away is tripped 😷
Use Gorilla brand glue for your hair and it will look trippy. LOL
The day I don't have property tax, income tax, sales tax, car tax, will be the day i give two shits about some plastic in the ocean. I give the government to much money for them to not clean the trash up.
@@CooterPotPie So, instead of practicing personal responsibility, you want the government to take care of the problems caused by thoughtless/careless people? And then you whine about having to pay taxes! How Republican of you. Where in the US Constitution, or any state constitution, does it say that government has the responsibility to clean up after filthy citizens?
@@gatoryak7332 it's good to know that a democrat ( i'm assuming since you insinuated i'm republican) doesn't care about getting double taxed for your money to be mismanage. Its clear what the problem here is, you're poorly informed/ misinformed about environmental and political issues. Thus you allot your disapproval in the wrong entities. Over 90% of the USA's plastic problem comes from rivers, commercial fishing, contracted waste shipping and inclement weather, all things either owned or regulated by the government. So yeah, I expect the government not to operate like a God damn pimp.
@@CooterPotPie Wow! I wish that I could comprehend what was going through your mind (other than alcohol) when you wrote that. Maybe then I could understand how it relates to your first comment and my response to it. Pro tip: Sober up or shut up.
You two are super cute and look like you're really having fun. I learnt a lot!
Yes agree with the plastic issue. Also if you get a wind/current shift, you’re going to pop you tie. And pull your anchor out. (Assuming it’s wedged. Otherwise great video! Thanks. BTW I am an identical twin!
Thanks Cap's, that was cool, you all are teaching me a lot for when I get my first boat.
Now I know if I'm ever out in the water and see a zip tie floating around, I should keep an eye out for the Twins. :D
Or me.
I learn lot of this with you guys..
Thanks.. newbie here..
Great video. My only suggestion is to always keep the carabiner attached to one of the clip-in spots on the anchor ring. You can still run rope through the gap and you won’t lose the ring if you accidentally drop it.
The whole point of running the carabinier through both eyelets in the ring is to keep the rope from being able to slip back out of the gap. You install the rope through the gap them block the gap with the carabinier.....if you just put it through one eyelet you'll probably lose your buoy.
Thanx so much girls. I never use mine cuz i thought you had to drive straight opposite, and worried about like you said the rope getting in the motor. But that going around is sweet.
Wow! I thought this was the first thing everyone did when learning to set an anchor! I learned about how to use a buoy when I was like 9 or something. With as many boats I see having Danforth anchors, how the hell do they get them back up without a buoy? Drive around the damn thing forever?? Common sense is not so common any more I guess.
In rocky bottoms I use two ropes, each one attached to one point of the anchor. One is attached to the boat and the other attached to a buoy that I leave drifting. If I don't manage to remove the anchor attached to the boat then I get the buoy rope and pull it in an opposite direction of the boat rope now also attached to another buoy. It always worked with me.
Very good but once you've had a good drum winch on the bow you'll leave all that at home.
Thank you Ladies. I've lost a couple of my Hooker Anchors in the past. Love that trip method you mentioned 👌