This story just keeps getting sadder, Saddawg correct

[coach66]

me if I am wrong but the way you dislodge an anchor is to tie the rope to the front of the boat and pull the anchor forward. If you can't dislodge it then cut it off and go home. A life lesson here fellows if you ever find yourselves in a similar situation.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/27/florida.nfl.capsize/index.html

 

[biguglyjoe]

Sad, sad turn of events.

 

[FlabLoser]

Steel cable? Seas too high to grab hold & cut (although I might have though of swimming down 20 feet and cutting from there).

 

[coach66]

steel cable is used for anchoring offshore. I have been out several times and I don't recall it ever being steel cable and this may be a good example of why you shouldn't use it. Again, we need the Saddawg to weigh in on this whole incident.

 

[saddawg]

I always leave some slack if I'm in (light) windy conditions. Although I troll in the wind and chop if it's pretty breezy and I'm aways out.., I can't remember ever dropping anchor if there is any doubt. There is no need for steel cable in a small craft. I don't see anchoring that far out. I only do it in fairly shallow water.

The real lesson here is don't go out if your vessel falls under an advisory.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

the seas weren't that bad yet, and they thought they could just pull it up with the engine. They had no idea it could flip the boat.

 

[SwampDawg]

You always use a kind of line that has "give" to it to absorb some of the shock from wave action. Did you all notice the bureaucrat lingo in the article to describe wave action? How do they come up with stuff like this.