4” ? Looked more like 4’ to me

I think "Get a life" springs to mind.

Please don’t use plastic.

I use a re- useable stainless spring clip for my release

@@2534will a spring clip! have to that in action

there's enough plastic in the ocean

Knew this comment would be here..

Ditto - I know it's small, but PLEASE no more plastic waste into the ocean! You could also use a trip-line with a float if your anchor gets stuck often.

Could run a cable from eye to eye on the anchor, with a ring on the cable to the anchor line. If it hangs just pull it back to the bottom of the anchor and jerk it free

They make biodegradable zip ties.

I came here to make this comment too....

@Dave DDM They're not biodegradable. They just break into very tiny fragments, also harmfull. And remember to try to answer without being unpolite, bigot.

Come on, if all the boaters in Florida used this method, all their daily combined zip tie sea discards would not add up to 1/4 of 1 commercial net that's probably discarded by the commercial boats by every minute. The girls or a few random boats are not doing anything that will harm the sea.

@@SaltwaterOutlaw Whatever we can do to reduce pollution, the better. As per discarding commercial nets, it is an absurd that should be banned.

I'm not gonna have to ponder what ever happened to the kids who volunteered for hall monitor duty anymore

exactly !

.makes sense the ball but no sense the zip tie .1 is plastic pollution. 2 could brake when u are actually using the anchor and instead of keeping u anchored comes off with load and u start drifting with the anchor hanging to the boat lifted the other side

So tedious this comment is.

@@JayKayKay7 FU

Aha. Another nuanced and well-reasoned response. Thank you for your suggestion. @@JLH1956

If you use 3/8 shafts on your anchor .. the shafts bends when you pulling up , and is not neccesary to use plastic tie

That is some really nice marlin spike splicing. Bravo Zulu.

Excellent, exactly what I was going to post. I add a little electrical tape on the "anchor" zip tie

Just use a anchor winch

Use a www.seahalt.com anchor and forget the zip ties...

Rocco 117 shit can still get stuck dude

Agreed. Even some light gauge twitching wire will break easily enough if it has to and will rust away in no time. Please don't use plastic as a sacrificial fastener

Yes!! It’s a must :)

Definitely makes sense! We set up our anchor ball that way when we go tarpon fishing!

Excellent points, Ben, all of them! I'd add one more suggestion to the list: serious fishermen around here all use weighted rope for their anchor lines, so if they have to cut them in rough weather, the line doesn't sneak its way back up to the surface at a later date and bight onto some other boat's prop or foul their gear.

@@timapple6586 I disagree! - Almost all anchor rodes are nylon and/or chain. Those sink anyway, so weights wouldn't change much. Floating ropes such as polyethylene and dyneema don't absorb shock loads, and thus make terrible anchor rodes. Do people in your area use those? Or under what conditions does nylon float? - Anything you set out with and don't return with is pollution. The only tolerable exceptions are rapidly biodegradable (I guess natural fibres like cotton or hemp will break down eventually, and nobody uses those). What happens if people leave messes and don't clean them up? Further down this thread, people are pointing out that zip ties are pollution, but that's nothing compared to a rode, nor the risk of fouling someone else's discarded anchor. - There's also a selfish reason to make sure your rode floats: anchors are expensive. Unless you're just tying a rope around a rock, you'll probably not want to lose it permanently. Retrieval requires a floating rode or a diver. - Because this ever more desperately urgent I'll speculate further. By now we've all heard far more than we want to about how we have to stop burning fossil fuels---we've known for over half a century that this is urgent! Do you suppose there's any chance that the risk of fouling a propeller might sway someone away from choosing a motorboat and towards a sailboat or rowboat etc, or even just slowing down to see obstacles in the water (like divers, turtles, whatever)? That would be a win for all of humanity. This is probably a tiny effect, but perhaps if we all talk about it incessantly we will be able to transition slightly more gracefully than if half of us don't talk about it for another 5 years. Of course, some people have electric motors... so this is a bit of a tricky one.

I use the bow/stern line also on my 16 ft Hourston glasscraft boat. Safety first.

a simple loop of bailing wire would do the same and if you just tie one side firmly around the chain and the other side just wrap tightly against the anchor it should be reusable for some time and if lost its just iron.

@@rdh1001 indeed, that's how we do it in Morocco's off-coast

Marine zip ties are biodegradable. They're made for exactly this. It's not your zip tie from Home Depot.

Now if they would stop calling it rope that would make my day. Haha. It’s Line on a boat, rope is for tying stuff up on shore.

@Matt Do you really are pathetic

@Matt Diamond Weird... I ALWAYS see them running the boat. Never a man. Are you assuming this? Love the channel and the knowledge I've gained from here.

Matt Diamond do your research,both of these young ladies are certified captains.

David Merullo anchor warp

Thank you!

@Bruce Peters That's a great idea, I was going to suggest to the ladies that they switch over to cotton shoelaces but I like your idea better. The important thing is they're leaving things as they found them by not littering.

Thank you very much!!

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Their advice is generally bad practice for: safe anchoring, damage to seabed and littering the ocean with zipties

We’ve been doing this in Alaska my whole life. I don’t think you’re ahead of us.

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You'll do it the same way, and complain more. Take my word for it. 😄

They're not sleeping, they're fishing.

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Ditto

In the Coast Guard we used jute twine. Used it to secure old fire hose around the mooring lines as chafing gear too.

A zip tie in the ocean

Bro....fuck off

You can probably do two zip ties together, one on the Chain one on the anchor. When one breaks it will hold the other probably

really like this nice instructional video! will the zip tie method work with Danforth or other style anchor?

​@@pskemp2yes it will

while I prefer it this way, their viewership will never grow like it would if they were to show off their bodies

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No. This is the most environmentally friendly way to retrieve an anchor from a reef. As far as the zip ties walk down any beach & look at the trash. If you’re that eco minded invent a biodegradable zip tie instead of wining

@@randyruney5704 I already did. I call it 'cotton string'.

@@gatoryak7332 yes I use it for years it works fine and because I don’t want to feed the fish cotton I tight it to the main shaft of the anchor

You can buy biodegradable zip ties.

@@mvakleko Didn't know they Make Eco-friendly Zip-ties..

@@mvakleko “Eco-friendly” zip ties are made of recycled plastic and are recyclable, if ever found on land and put in a recycling bin. But when underwater, they still remain made of plastic that dissolves like any other plastic-made objects. “Biodegradable is not better for the environment, it just means the plastic will breakdown into small, in most cases more harmful fragments. All plastic will biodegrade eventually, and still poses a threat to the local environment, this is just greenwashing a marketing technique used to make people feel like they are doing the right thing.-Emma.”

Scott Williams try saying that quickly 😂

Use short pieces of hemp gardening twine. Tie them in a reef knot, it will break. If it’s windy use two or three pieces of twine. No plastic in the water! Well made video though with good information as always!

Cotton string disintegrates fast

I’m sure your personally putting more plastic in the ocean than a zip tie

@@seabournewolf2298 but let’s not put more in than we have to!

Once anchor pops, it's off the seabed in the same way it would if you are directly above it. The only way it drags is if you arent using a big enough float, in that case you're right it could def damage seafloor

The anchor rope is going in a circle not the anchor

they only do that during the day when all the fish arnt sleeping

Or me.

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Yeh, well, it is a fishing boat, a fishing show, they have fishing rods, they are talking about fishing. So, yeh, this is for fishing.

Use Gorilla brand glue for your hair and it will look trippy. LOL

The day I don't have property tax, income tax, sales tax, car tax, will be the day i give two shits about some plastic in the ocean. I give the government to much money for them to not clean the trash up.

@@CooterPotPie So, instead of practicing personal responsibility, you want the government to take care of the problems caused by thoughtless/careless people? And then you whine about having to pay taxes! How Republican of you. Where in the US Constitution, or any state constitution, does it say that government has the responsibility to clean up after filthy citizens?

@@gatoryak7332 it's good to know that a democrat ( i'm assuming since you insinuated i'm republican) doesn't care about getting double taxed for your money to be mismanage. Its clear what the problem here is, you're poorly informed/ misinformed about environmental and political issues. Thus you allot your disapproval in the wrong entities. Over 90% of the USA's plastic problem comes from rivers, commercial fishing, contracted waste shipping and inclement weather, all things either owned or regulated by the government. So yeah, I expect the government not to operate like a God damn pimp.

@@CooterPotPie Wow! I wish that I could comprehend what was going through your mind (other than alcohol) when you wrote that. Maybe then I could understand how it relates to your first comment and my response to it. Pro tip: Sober up or shut up.

The whole point of running the carabinier through both eyelets in the ring is to keep the rope from being able to slip back out of the gap. You install the rope through the gap them block the gap with the carabinier.....if you just put it through one eyelet you'll probably lose your buoy.

We use this method a lot in the UK, if the anchor stays stuck the bow will be pulled round in an arc, because you are going slow the pull round is gentle. That's how you know its not coming up. The most dangerous part of this method is not giving enough separation and running over the rope. If given the respect it is a very good method.