Ultra Trip Hook - Small

During a 12-boat raft-up in the CA Delta, after we set our anchor early in the event, others joined us on our port side, having their anchors dropped via the Commodore's dinghy. As a result, the boat next to us had their rode inadvertently dropped across ours. So when it came time for him to leave, as he motored forward and they windlassed in their mostly-line rode, their anchor had snagged our all-chain rode. We were suspicious that this might happen so we were watching our rode carefully for any signs of motion. As soon as we felt the vibration in our rode, we shouted to the departing boat that they had hooked our rode. He continued to lift his anchor as far as his small windlass would allow but with the weight of our chain, his anchor still remained about 2-3 feet below the water and about 100' in front of us. Deb and Alexus to the rescue!!! (with Ultra Trip Hook in the dinghy) We motored our dinghy out to the offending boat with all the other boats watching in great anticipation! We quickly got the trip hook under our rode, handed the bitter end up to the first mate on the bow of the offending boat, and advised him to cleat the hook, so he could lower his anchor. As soon as the anchor was dropped free of the rode, we took the hook line from him and backed our dinghy away, taking the rode sideways and away from the hanging anchor. He then was able to raise the anchor as we safely and easily pulled the trip line to let the heavy chain rode drop back to the bottom. Piece of cake!!! The released boat then safely motored away and as we dinghied back, the rest of the raft-up burst into applause! What would they do without us??? Ha! Our club Commodore asked us where we got our trip hook and, of course, we told him "Quickline! The same place we got our Ultra Anchor!" He said the club would definitely be buying one for future raft-ups, in case we're not there ;-) So that's our latest Quickline story. Thanks for all the great products!!!