Value of an Anchor

[xaos]

Lesson 1.
a. As Darren noted, get it in fresh water.
b. Start a new thread.

Lesson 2 . How to reduce the value of an artefact:

Here is a shot of it right after we painted it.

 

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[Alexandre]

a fully preserved 1600's spanish anchor.

How do you know that?

 

[agflit]

Very interesting!! I do some work off the Carolina's and Va coasts...would love to learn more about this find if your willing to discuss it...

ag

 

[A2coins]

That's pretty cool would be hard to move lol

 

[xaos]

When hurricanes roll through, is it 'resurrect old threads" call to arms?

Karen just rolled over the island...

Glad Lorenzo is heading north, that looks like a big one.....

 

[Bum Luck]

Of course at a glance all of those anchors look alike but from the angle of the ring, the flukes, and the amount of growth on it, it sure looks like one I dove on around 8 years ago. I have some pictures of it at home somewhere but they are not digital. I showed it to someone who then showed it to someone and then shortly afterward I couldn’t find it and I always thought someone removed it but hoped it was just covered with sand. The one I’m talking about was in only around 12’ of water, sitting jut outside of the reef on the sand off of Palm Beach County and pointed out to sea to the SE. I sure hope you did a good job of preserving it because I would have much rather it would have been left where it was for everyone to enjoy and not rot in someones backyard.

I pulled up some stuff when younger, and learned that mom would always throw it out of the garage. When you grew up, wife would take on that duty.

Got to have a plan, and think it through carefully. Good preservation costs money and time.

Lots of iron cannon disentegrated into rust over the years.

 

[ivan salis]

often the real value of a ships anchor is in helping to find where a shipwreck site is ...in bad weather anchors are often let go to keep a ship off the rocks and reefs ..as the storm pushes the ship the anchor will bite in and its eye will point in the direction in which its being pushed --once you find a anchor on the bottom looking in the direction the eye is pointing can often lead to the wreck on nearby reefs or rccks or shallow water area