Beach anchoring ?

[Perfect Drift]

How does one anchor on a sandy beach on
the Columbia and keep the boat safe from
big waves. I've had the boat swamped with sand and water.
Is there a method to use one rope and keep
it off shore?
Help please, we wanta camp on the island.

[pirk fan]

Cabelas used to (and may still) sell stretchy anchor rope. Set your anchor, run to shore and unload, then while holding onto a separate bow line, let your boat back off the beach under the tension of the elastic rope. Not so likely to slip your anchor either, as the rope takes up the shock of waves

[Ocean]

You can get the bunge anchor ropes at fishermans marine or GI Joes.

It helps if you anchor with your bow out, it will take waves better.

[AngleThis]

This is one thing I definitely have down, as I've done lots of overnight camping on the Columbia, and have an I/O drive on a small boat.

Set your anchor in the deepest water you can reach, at a 45 degree angle upstream from where you want your boat to be when you step into it off the shore. Make sure it is set good and use your bobber to mark the spot, inside of where, your rope could get fouled by passing blow its. Shore anchor another line and tie it to your aft cleat; the one nearest the shore. Tie off to the middle of the line at both cleats, leaving at least 50' of extra line at each end.

When you want to load/off load, use the stern line to pull the boat toward shore. It will be facing away from shore and upstream, so incoming waves will not go over your transom.

When the tide goes out, or before you retire to your sleeping bag, let some of the stern line off from shore...the boat will move into safer deeper water, and won't get beached overnight or at low tied. When you want to get back into the boat, just retrieve that extra line and your boat comes to you instead of you having to go to your boat. For bite *** cold days, U can even use the stearn line for hand over hand access to your boat in a $10 blow up dinghy... don't even have to get your feet wet.

Are you confused now?

[DF]

Good info angle

the only thing im worried about is what if the out drive hits the sand.. not good.. its a 17 ft fiber glass I/O think it would be safe to leave stern out?

[Elwood]

You need to use a running line. Set it up like this: Use a heavy anchor that holds well with either a big ring or pully attached to it. Run a very long rope through the ring, and attach your boat line to that rope, in the middle of the long rope. I attach a float to the boat line for added flexability. It allows you to leave and return without having to set the system up again. Tie the ends of the long rope together!! Secure to shore. We would loop the rope around a tree on shore, and use a short piece of line tied to the tree to keep the boat in place. You are using the anchor to hold the running line, then using a short section of rope to attach the boat to the running line. ( Always use more boat line than depth of river). When you want your boat out in the river, pull on one of the 2 ropes going to shore to pull the boat out. Pull on the other side to bring it into shore. It takes a little practice, and a lot of rope. The only way to loose your boat is if someone cuts the running line. (or failure to tie good knots, or trying to run a knot through the ring at the anchor!!) [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] It is always better to make the running line out of a rope that doesn't float, just in case some &*@#$ drives his boat between shore and your anchored boat. I use this same sort of system when fishing lakes like Paulina when we leave the boat in the lake overnight. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Good Luck. Elwood

[Jennie@ifish]

Yesterday Bill and I were out around T bay, looking at how some boats were tied up for camping.
Bill studied it and is going to share a really neat way someone had their boat rigged for camping.
Stay tuned...
Jen

[DF]

good info

staying tuned [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Bait O' Eggs]

Jen
If you saw 3 boats tethered to the rocks near crab harbor that would have been me and family. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Wish you would have seen the ifish stickers, and came and hauled some crab off for us.


We dropped an anchor about 100 feet off shore with a bouy and a pulley mounted on the bouy. We used a 300 foot rope and tied each end to the shore. We would pull on one rope until the line was tight thru the pulley back to the shore. We would tie the rope to the boat with the line we were pulling the rope tight with. Then we would pull the other end of the rope until the boat was up tight to the bouy, then it was just a matter of tieing the rope off.

We had to make sure the anchor rope to the bouy had enough slack in it the tide would not float the anchor off bottom.

It worked well and it easy to retrieve the boats to shore. Another concern was a doughball might try to go between the boat and shore and cut our ropes with his prop, gladly it hasnt happened the last few years we have done this.

We only tied the front of the boat to the rope. The tide and wind would have the boat pointed in a different direction each time we went to get a boat.

[Jennie@ifish]

Yip! That was you!
I wish I had of known!
We were right around the corner from you on the Sandy beaches.
Bill admired your set up and studied it thoroughly.
How bout drawing an illustration?
[img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Jen

[Bait O' Eggs]

Here is your diagram Jen, (If I can get it to post)



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[Jennie@ifish]

Hope you don't mind, but I redid the text and resized it so that it didn't scroll.
Excellent diagram, Roy, thanks!
Now people can print this out and get the whole thing like we are about to!
And.... Maybe we will go try it out!
By the way, if you dont want the pic so big that it forces the browser window to scroll across the screen, make it no larger than 600 pixels wide.
Jen

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[Bait O' Eggs]

Jen
Thanks for the help, If you only knew what I went thru to get it online [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Sketch it up yesterday, scanned it, and it was in the wrong format to load. rescanned it in a bitmap (only took 20 minutes to figure that out). tried to upload it and it was to big. Tried to email to you for help and it was to big for email, and it timed out.

Got smart today [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] and reduced it on copier to hopefully make it smaller, and rescanned. Tried to upload and it was again in wrong format. Rescanned in bitmap and got uploaded finally.

I was really surpised when it even came up on the post.

What are you doing giving my buddy Gizmo a hard time. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Jennie@ifish]

Sorry, BOE.
Say it after me
.jpg
.gif
.jpeg
.JPG

Any of those. Bit maps are always BIG!
Jpg is a compressed file, perfect for the net.
I'm sorry that you had trouble, I'll help you!
Jen

[Perfect Drift]

Thank you for the great tips.
You folks are the best.
This site rocks !!