Abstract: An anchor caddy useful in raising an anchor by translating the force exerted on the anchor line by movement of the boat to a vertical force on the anchor is disclosed. The device can also function having the anchor on a few feet of line extending therefrom, as a sea anchor. The anchor caddy consists of a float adapted to support the anchor and caddy. A pulley and housing therefore are attached to the float and movable deflector plates are pivotally mounted at ends thereof on either side of the pulley housing. The anchor line extends from the anchor, over the pulley, through a releaseable, one way dogging mechanism, mounted within the housing, to the boat. The dogging mechanism, when engaged, will permit the line to pass over the pulley only in the direction of the boat. Force exerted on the line causes the deflector plates to pivot outwardly to about 45.degree. angles with the pulley.

Abstract: The invention relates to an anchor which includes an anchor head having flukes thereon and a shaft to which at an outer end thereof an anchor warp is connected. The shaft is pivotally mounted with the head of the anchor and is formed having an elongate primary shaft pivotally connected with the head at an inner end and having a recess therewithin which mounts, in normal operation a secondary shaft which has its inner end connected with the anchor head.

Abstract: In the placement of an anchor in the sea bed for mooring of a vessel a chaser in the form of a loop or hook is attached to a service line and the chaser is positioned on the anchor to support the anchor. A service vessel with the service line secured thereto pulls the anchor and anchor chain from the parent vessel to be moored and simultaneously lowers the anchor to the sea bed via the service line. The anchor is subsequently set in the sea bed for mooring and the chaser can then be removed from the anchor chain or returned up the chain to the moored vessel.To retrieve the anchor, the chaser is run down the anchor chain until it engages the anchor, and the service vessel then pulls the anchor from the sea bed by means of the service line and takes the anchor aboard. The anchor is then returned to the parent vessel.

Abstract: An underwater anchor for keeping floating structures in position in oceans or other waters has at least one oblong cylindrical hollow body constructed in such a manner that it can withstand the external water pressure at the depth at which it is used. The body has a positive floating power when its interior is almost entirely filled with air. One or more fastening points for anchor cables are located on the body and it may have one or more connections for adding ballast to the interior of the body.

Abstract: Use of a light-hauling-up line in connection with a disengaging chain or wire (pendant wire) which is attached to the head of a large anchor placed on the bottom of the sea. The hauling-up line extends from the disengaging wire which lies on the bottom of the sea, up to the surface where it is fastened to a buoy. The hauling-up is intended to draw up the disengaging wire to a craft which will raise the anchor.