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I have never buoyed an anchor either. While I hate to admit it, you can always write off the primary anchor and use your "storm" anchor as your primary until you get a chance to get a new one. I really can't imagine some harbors full of anchored boats with buoys everywhere. It is bad enough with different types of boats swinging differently, different amounts of scope and different types of rodes (chain vs. line).
I worked on a 92' schooner with a large hydraulic windlass for 9 years and we hooked all sorts of stuff. The boat hangs to its anchor an average of 5 days a week, 5 months a year so there is lots of chances for hooking stuff. Things that I can remember picking up are a 10 ton mooring block(we couldn't get it off the bottom), part of an old sunken boat, some 1" anchor chain that seemed to be fastened on both ends, probably 50 wires and hundreds of pieces of pot warp. Somehow, we always got it all unwrapped but it wasn't always easy. We usually doubled a line around whatever we had fouled, slipped chain to get the anchor clear then released the doubled line. The thing that fouled the most was the anchor itself since it is a fisherman type and every circle you do in the night means another turn around the stock.
Isn't there a joke about a couple going bareboating and calling the charter company on the 3rd day saying that the company didn't give them enough anchors. I guess some people don't think they are reusable.
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