Sea Fishing (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1895)
Bickerdyke, John, Hemy, C. Napier (Illus.), Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 230
SEA FISHING FROM.SMALL BOATS 205 illustration that the rope is made fast to the wrong end of the anchor, but is held to the ring by means of a piece of yarn strong enough to hold the boat and yet so-weak that it will break if a very heavy strain is given to it, as would be the case should … the anchor catch in a rock. On the twine breaking, the strain comes at the other end of the anchor, which is then easily lifted. Another plan, which is only suitable in slack water, is to have a light line from the flukes of the anchor, and, at the end Water line ¢ : — ro of it, a small buoy, such…
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