Lincoln Beach Friday

[Tin-Can]

Glad to hear you didn't get skunked. I went out Saturday for the maiden voyage. I just kept motor tilted up slightly just in case in channel but didn't have a problem. We tried to anchor fish but my anchors are to small for this boat so I was dragging them. So I switched to drifting with the wind but it was circling so it was swirling the boat and messing up lines so we decided to drive the boat around and see how it performs. It goes well left steering is tight but all in all it goes great. Does about 31 mph according to GPS on my phone. I plan to take it out a time or two more to burn some stabilizer through it and use up some of the gas but I'll probably use provo just to be safe. But I thank you for the info and may seek out more.

   Justin,  glad to hear the "new" boat worked well.  Don't know what type anchor you are using, but if it came with the boat, and the boat was mostly used for pulling water toys, skis, etc. it's quite likely the wrong type.  For an anchor to work effectively, it needs to be able to "dig" into the floor of whatever body of water you may be on. 
If the anchor you have looks something like this:  Then it will more than likely just bump along the bottom and not grab.

   

If you have one that looks like this:  It's the correct type, but it may not be grabbing the bottom if it doesn't have a chain attached between the anchor and the anchor rope. 




This type of anchor, the tines pivot .  The chain attached causes the center anchor loop to lay down when it hits the bottom, then as it is dragged the tines dig into the bottom surface. 

The boaters course I took many years (50 ish) ago in California (for small sail type boats) had something in it that I don't completely remember, but it was like, for whatever the depth is you anchor in, you should put out 3 times that amount  in rope length to the anchor.  

Well, I don't believe anyone actually does that except for maybe very large ocean going vessels.   The anchor on my little boat has 50 ft. of line attached, and I have about 200 ft. total extra robe stowed on the boat. 
When I drop anchor, I know what depth I'm in, I drop the anchor, the 5 ft. of chain, and roughly whatever amount of rope that makes up the total for the depth I'm in.  

Your new boat is 20 ft. long and quite a bit heavier that mine, so it would need a bit larger anchor. But in my experience, and Danforth type anchor is the best all around type.