welcome to saying vessel seeker in this video we're going to talk about our anchoring system
or ground tackle and we give it a real world test
and that's a thunderstorm and this is a thunderstorm and that's a thunderstorm
yeah that was fun there's other videos on the construction of this winch but it actually came
out of the oil field the original winch was just down here it's probably about a 10-ton winch we
put the bigger flanges on it so it can hold more road that's rope for all the rest of us and we can
also stack on a whole bunch of chain when we need to so i hope you enjoy the ground tackle video
we messed about with our anchor today you can see put a lot of the chain over there on that
section that keeps this one much smaller and that gives it a lot less leverage so it can
pull up and that works fine we also brought the pressure on this hydraulic system up to 2000 psi
the main pump didn't like it last time we did that but it seems to be happy enough today and we're
using the v-mac for anchorique too we're gonna rearrange our anchor system a bit this morning
so we can put two anchors out if needed and we gotta find the middle of this i don't even know
how much i bought here that's a lot of line so we're using the water mark's gonna pick up that
buoy and we're gonna straighten all this out and find the middle look at this stuff it is amazing
it floats and it holds get this this is half inch am steel it holds 34 000 pounds the downside to it
is that it doesn't like chafing so if you run it across a rock or something like that it'll cut it
so we're going to put chain on the ends and then this stuff for the rest of it
i'd rather have all chain i should pull it out yeah it didn't matter he's 300 feet away
there's gonna be 600 feet here i bought the whole thing i think
normally melts a lot faster than that but this has a bunch of water in it now
where's the el paso is el paso it's always the same boats like they got a route we're
gonna wire tie the shackles the stainless steel so they don't unscrew unexpectedly
all right thank you
so we're going to end up putting on 300 feet of half inch am steel and then 40 feet of 5 8
inch chain and surprisingly it lifted chain and anchor and all today all of it's pulled up but
we turned the psi up to 2000 and it wasn't doing it really easy so this will help out even more
look at there way over there a sailboat that's one of the next things we gotta figure out now
what we did is we cut slots in this plate and the reason we did that is because when we put a
lot of rope on here if you put the first wraps on kind of loose and that's always easy to do because
you're just pulling in an anchor and then you put a lot of load on it that line on the top will cut
down through the others and make it really hard to get back out sometimes impossible you just
got to cut it out so what we can do is we can flip it over to the other side take up all the
loose stuff over here and then when we're ready to take load we put it back over here get a few wraps
on and it's it's also not as great a diameter so you get a lot more pulling force and you don't cut
down through anything so that's the reason for the slot and we can even use it for the chain we tried
it the other day and the chain's a lot sloppier so we said hey if we had a slot we could even
do that with a chain so this is our anchor set up for now but you know we'll change our minds
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ain't that beautiful well and welcome to my shower it hit 103 today this feels nice
artificial sweat and you don't have enough inside yet
yeah it's worth it
yeah we got our first little thunderstorm of the summer so far the only thing that's
inconvenienced me with this i had to bring in my laundry to dry it in the actual dryer other than
that i've checked that the anchor is set and it's cool i got my own weather radar so this
solid line is the direction i'm facing this dotted line is the direction i'm moving and
that's a thunderstorm and this is a thunderstorm and that's a thunderstorm and the other thing
i've done is i made sure my anchor watch is on so and that quilt shows you all the land around you
which direction you're facing it shows you all the points and where you are right now
um
that is quite a glow now the anchor's still holding i'm gonna go close this window
blowing like hell but we're still good there's a good anchor test
right in the middle of it now we are right there underneath that red part
yeah most of it's off past us now this uh red right in here that's the shoreline that
it's seeing and it's uh covering the lake but there's the other shoreline over here
and that's it and i'll tell you one thing i'm gonna do tomorrow i'm gonna
get it where i close this window little towel kind of work but that latch freaking thing
do that all quiet again get everything inside the pilot house wash down a little bit let's go
check the anchor one more time see it's not dogged
and she's going right over fairly where she should be
that's beautiful there's hardly any pressure on that at all
my guess is with all the pivoting around we did we uh snagged it drug it under and it's
wrapped around the anchor line now and a beautiful sunrise to greet me this morning
and i got an anchor that i'm really happy with so you know after the first time it holds you think
that's good you know it was a good blow last night too i i don't have an anemometer up but i'm
guessing those winds are about 40 45 miles an hour nice thing about thunderstorms are so short-lived
even if you drug anchor you know it's going to be over before you get anywhere and especially
last night you know we were going that way they were going that way they were going that way
so every which way but towards shore which is fantastic this is a good location anyway that's
it for me in this video what'd you make today get out there in your shops turn off the videos
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pictures we'll put them up on the end of a video then you can watch another video see you later
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