Bizarre Boat Anchors

[NewfieDan]

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My uncle used to have an old cast iron radiator that was filled with concrete to moor my dad's boat. The boat was only an 18ft so it never moved, didn't matter how much wind came up.

 

[halfmoa]

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Hillarious, but I forsee one problem. The harley will inevitably leak like a sieve and you will be hit by the EPA with an oil discharge fine!

You beat me to it!

 

[LippCJ7]

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You beat me to it!

You guys are killing me!!! I LOVE my HARLEY!!!!

 

[greenbush future]

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We use dumb bell weights to perch fish in the great lakes. The idea is to have it bounce off the bottom (wave action) and stir things up, this will bring the perch in big time.
I always keep 2-3/ 5 lbs'ers under the seat for this and they almost always come untied at some point. Need to work on my knots I guess.

Milk jugs filled with sand and water always work for canoes and kayaks.

 

[halfmoa]

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You guys are killing me!!! I LOVE my HARLEY!!!!

But you can't tell me there's not a puddle under it! Harleys are like helicopters...if they're not leaking some sort of fluid there's a problem.

 

[LippCJ7]

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I can honestly tell you my Harley does not leak anything and NO IT IS NOT DRY!! but I do know the story!!

I had a hard time being talked out of a Ducatti 916SS in favor of my Heritage Softail Classic so I know exactly what your saying!!

 

[smokeonthewater]

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You guys are killing me!!! I LOVE my HARLEY!!!!

I didn't even know you had a 100' yacht........................................... ROFL ;D

 

[The_Kid]

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I used to use the voice coil magnet from an old Control Data 844 hard drive as an anchor for my old Monark aluminum boat.














In case your wondering how a piece of a hard drive could anchor a boat you have to see what disk drives looked like back then. The 844 stood about 40" tall 45" deep, 22" wide, and weighed 660 pounds.




The magnet was about 9" square and weighed about 50 pounds. And yes, I've been working on computers for quite a while. I also used to repair ASR-33 and ASR-35 teletypes but they were to bulky to be used as an anchor. Some of you youngsters will have to Google those to find out what they are.

 

[NetDoc]

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I don't have an anchor for my boat yet. I am due to go looking for one off of Conch Wall after I get back from DEMA in Orlando next week. I have found over 25 anchors while diving and they range from a 17th century anchor locked in coral (I left it) to a stainless steel 80 lb Plow anchor off of WPB. Danforths are a pretty common find and I have collected three on a single dive (yay for lift bags).

 

[dan t.]

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Years ago we built a raft with a diving board and anchored it in a slow spot in a local river where we swam. For an anchor we used a worn out track chain from a John Deere 450, tied it in a bundle with chain, loaded it on the raft, floated out to the spot and pushed it overboard, it lasted for years

 

[04fxdwgi]

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Lots of old v6 and v8 engines for moorings around here, and I know of one mooring that was made with a couple of kegs filled with concrete, chained together.

I've also found a sidewalk slab that used to have an eye bolted thru middle of it, the steel has rusted away. its sitting on a smooth sandy bottom, kinda funny swimming along and coming across a sidewalk in the middle of the cove.

After an old V-8 block (we used to use old chrysler 413's from gas powered trucks. Had a ton of blown ones) sits in the silt for a year or 2, you couldn't pull it up with a crane. There forever....