Newbie/lurker

[NW_Wellcraft90]

Originally Posted by scook

Hah, another Columbus River guy***128512;. Where are you located? I'm out just west of Portland. Mine's an '85 I/O but I did a litttle fishing with a Camas guy with an outboard.

If you decide to set it up with a rocking chair anchor, let me know. I've done mine and might have some useful ideas about getting the sliding hatches out of the way. You can email me at Scott at cookconst dot net.

Welcome to the site.

Scott, we are on the east side, spring time we launch out of the gleason ramp, come fall we like to launch at chinook and run up to the mouth of the sandy. So far we have anchored a few times and it is not terribly difficult, just slide the hatches all of the way foreward. I can lay on the bow, release the anchor, then drop back to the helm area and let the anchor go. We have about a 15ft tail that hangs back in the cabin and if we need to drop out just tug on the rope to get it off the cleat and away we go. Definately open to suggestions to make it simpler.