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Originally Posted by Capt. Frank
Sometimes you have to just cut it and let it go. A diver will cost you much more that the thing is worth.
Also trying to forcibly tear it out could be dangerous even in the calmest of conditions. Read up on the 4 NFL'ers that went out in Florida and 3 of 4 were dead in 24 hours about 7-8 years ago.
They swamped and capsized their boat trying to free a stuck anchor using the engine to tear it out of the bottom.
Sometime you lose them. We all do.
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Yes good advice Frank... If you are going to try and free it, what you don't want to do is try to do it in a rough ocean, and you certainly don't want to tie to off your back cleat. If the anchor doesn't pop your stern is going to drop and you could get swamped.. You want to tie it off a a cleat to use the front cleat since you have more freeboard up front then you do in the back....
