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| Weather radar shows a huge area of rain extending at least 50 miles offshore here. We had a heavy rain squall while I was eating breakfast with quite a bit of wind. Looks like I am gonna get wet but I am going to try this gizmo out. Raining again---maybe later.
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| Ingenious idea. Eagerly awaiting results of trial run. Keep us posted. P.S. Are you going to patent the design?
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Sailfish
      
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| I gave it a test run this afternoon. It worked just like I expected it would. You absolutely "MUST" stop all forward motion before droping the anchor. Actually, that is just good common sense. There would be a tremendous amount of stress on the bracket if you tried to use it to stop forward momentum. I may make a mold to cast a "generic" bracket to hold both anchor and rudder. I do not expect it would be a huge project nor one that costs a huge amount. Syntactic foam casting is not rocket science nor is simple mold building. Finding the untapered fiberglass rod at a reasonable price must be the first order of business. If kayaks had exploded on the scene along with high fuel prices about 30 years ago, I would be a rich man now because I would have tapped into the yak market with some much needed innovations. I'd sure like to get something going to make a few bucks.
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| I'm not sure what type of fiberglass non tapered pole you are looking for or how much $$$ but have you tried a pole spear for you anchor. They are 5-6' long and they are not tappered don't know if the dia. is big enough. BA
-------------------------------------------24' cape w/t-yams, 1981 ski nautique Prattville Al. Casa del Marina in OB
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The rod diameter is ~5/8". The stand offs used on power lines would be perfect. Somebody makes yak stake out poles that would work just fine but, at $69 a pop, I couldn't make sell them with my product.
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