bow anchor pulley roller

[learning to fly]

im looking for a good way to anchor from the bow of my hurricane 630. looking to mount an anchor pully to the front that overhangs the tube, i saw a picture somewhere that had it attched to the tow bit on a bracket extending over the bow enough to keep the rope off the tubes. any info pics or idea would be welcome, thanks

[wellhouse]

something like these? You can get a fibreglass moulding that 'sticks' to the tube and these mount on it? Or this -

[Andy_Rs600]

The most common way to save the tubes is to have a small fitted roller on the bow to deploy and recover the anchor, but then once you are anchored to tie the anchor rode to the painter so the load goes directly to the bow eye under the tubes, and the lines coming back over the tubes is slack so it doesn't wear on the tubes. If you do that the fitting on the tubes doesn't need to be so robust.

[Jeff]

Something like this ? ,,,

https://www.gfn.it/en/catalogue/bow-...flatable-boats

and this ? ,,,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AISI-316-...4383.l4275.c10


Jeff

[Squid Boat]

I used the zodiac one in wellhouse's last post, then added some old clicker snowboard bits to protect the hull and strap the anchor down.


Cheers, Don

[Bigtalljv]

Like this?

I’ve thought about similar ideas and collected these off the Internet and here. I have a 7m zodiac. Pulling anchor is going to be an issue as I get older. Probably be the reason I get a hard boat eventually.

I’m torn as hanging something out from defeats the bouncy boat ideal.

Jason

[Squid Boat]

When you get old just get a anchor bitch Jason.


Cheers,