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Ok CH I will bite.

Anchor does the wild thing and chooses to part company from chain and usual home to live the dream in soft mud.

Large strong portion of netting with weights gets towed from above and miraculously accosts errant anchor from new found freedom.

Pics please.

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Sarcasm n

Ok CH I will bite.

Anchor does the wild thing and chooses to part company from chain and usual home to live the dream in soft mud.

Large strong portion of netting with weights gets towed from above and miraculously accosts errant anchor from new found freedom.

Pics please.

Yep, sarcasm noted. The guy asked for ideas so just trying to help Prissy and you are not the one that asked. Used a weighted net dragged behind a dinghy to get a boarding ladder that got knocked over and took a few trays but worked. Thought it would pickup an anchor too assuming it's not buried in mud.
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Hi shame about the anchor , but old computer hard drive magnets would be the strongest you could use I dropped a crescent in the marina last week i had an old computer in the shed ratted the magnets , next day up comes the crescent , they are so strong ,two magnets together you won’t getthem apart ,

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I have recovered a few sunken moorings over the years, a small grapnel towed behind a dinghy did the job. This was always done at dead at low tide and once hooked you then dive down the rope and attach a heavy line  for recovery. This has also been used to recover lost dive belts but with a smaller grapnel, so the technique works fine as long as there is something for the grapnel to hook on to. Stating the bleeding bloody obvious I suppose but your biggest challenge  is the area you have to cover. The grapnel was four pronged made from 8mm rebar 400 mm Long and 180 mm Dia. Patience is key sometimes it took 2 or 3 hrs to hook it but worth it for $1700 perhaps.

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