T&T: Another Useful Tip

[Garrett Lambert]

Someone suggested to me that a heavy sports bag is a great way to store a 
secondary rode, and that's how I do it. The line, with 10' of chain 
attached, is just flaked into the bag bitter end first. I then pull enough 
of the bitter end out so that it's readily grab-able. Works very well.

As Marin suggests, I also sized the new anchor as a just-in-case main 
anchor. The original main anchor is a 44 pound Bruce, so I purchased a 
Fortress FX-23 for its different holding characteristics. Although only 18 
pounds, it's bulky and awkward, and thus resides in a bracket clamped to the 
rail. (Fortress advertises that it can be disassembled into its several 
components for easier storage, but since a wrench and several minutes are 
required to put it together, that would negate its use in an emergency.)

Cheers, Garrett