L.W. (ßill) Hughes III did pass the time by typing:
You need a sea-anchor. Basically a large parachute looking device made of heavy canvas. Works wonders at sea. It relies on the fact you can't drag a big object through water without a hell of a lot of resistance.
A sea anchor only slows your drift and keeps the bow headed into the wind. It does nothing to keep you in one spot. Sea anchors are for the wide-open sea - not lakes.
Try one in a 70 mph gale on Lake Powell and it will merely take 5 minutes longer to hit the opposite shore. And some of the slot canyons are barely wide enough for a boat to squeeze into - no room for anchoring of any sort - you need to look for trees instead, and there aren't many of those....
John Davies Spokane WA USA
Approximately 10/10/03 23:57, DougW uttered for posterity:
Does it work on a river? Say the Colorado, where you are trying to anchor in just a temporary man made wide spot?
Approximately 10/9/03 23:17, Fletcher uttered for posterity:
Did anyone else see the video from San Francisco Friday 10th? I missed most of it, and what I could see I couldn't identify the type of Jeep involved [looked like it may have been a blue Libby]. Some woman in San Francisco was speeding on Fulton at over 100, and managed to whack a curb and launch her Jeep over a wall and out onto the sand almost to the waterline at Ocean Beach. The Jeep was rather mangled...
Lon Stowell did pass the time by typing:
Probably, but only if you fill it with concrete. ;)
Tried a grapple anchor?
Only problem is Grapnels are not very strong.
The closest lake to me is Draper. I've swam across it and the best anchor is a cement filled coffee can... They never took down the old trees when making the lake so anchors getting stuck is common.
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