[quote=MN3][quote]I bought a helical auger about 3 feet long that you turn and it embeds into the beach and then use a chain and lock through it and secure the Hobie. with the chain through the anchor eyehole you cant turn the helical anchor to remove and steal the boat worked well for me.
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Yup - there are many kinds of augers - but only ones with the right slope will work in the sand (at least the type we have around here)
I use one on each side of my cat - tie a line across my tramp and secure it. sometime i even tie my trap handles to the augers to reduce the sway of the mast (that may work augers out of the sand)
Then i tie the bows down to my trailer
My trailer has a pair of chocks under one tire and i have a custom "foot" on my trailer that i can lower in drive into the sand to act as another "stop" to prevent my cat/trailer from moving
Last summer my cat was on it's wheels, tied to the trailer (but not chocked nor anchored) - I was at home waiting for some light rain to pass before going to the beach - I got the call saying "come now - your cat is in the middle of the road" - when i got there a strong breeze had pushed my boat still tied to the trailer (and another cat/trailer) up the beach, and my spin pole was now less than 1 inch from impaling the side of a van (that happened to have a hand painted murial on it). that would have been VERY expensive to repair. The only thing that stopped it was some very nice kayakers who stopped it and chocked the tires with big rocks that were around.
Oh 1 note about chain:
I am not concerned with theft too much (much more likely someone will vandalize it than steal it) - probably pretty tough to steel a catamaran with the mast up - your not gonna go to far without hitting a power line
and since my cat is big, heavy and complex - no one is gonna get it off the beach in under an hour - not optimal for thieves<!-- editby --><em>Edited by MN3 on Jun 13, 2017 - 12:00 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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