I would agree. At an old marina I used to work at when someone wanted a hull clean we would strap the bow and both right and left rear eyelets and lift it up with our overhead hoist. Its a good way to tell how strong the glass is and if you have the eyelets tight lol. Fortunately we never had any problems and did quite a few boats while i was there.

I wasn't suggesting using a cleat, and agree that would be much worse. I'm saying I would be very careful about using any point on the boat to pull a fixed object that is hooked onto who-knows-what. There might be a good reason it was cut loose.

I hate the sound of a cleat ripping loose from the boat...

Well == I haven't recovered any lately -- but my son left mine in the coral in 60 feet of water of Cudjoe Key near Key West a few weeks ago -- if anyone finds it, I would like it returned --

Of course the other option is I go search for it myself -- that wouldn't be all that bad either -- of course it would be a liesurely search -- snorkel a little -- look at the bottom for the anchor -- rest -- have a Corona on the boat -- etc --- it would be rough duty I am sure ---

I was anchor with a buddy, a fellow boater and Marine. Pretty strong wave action and we were trying to get close to shore to swim.

I told him to toss the anchor out and then cinch it down when I told him to. He tossed the anchor and then asked what the other end of the line was attached to. He had pulled it out of a storage bin, not a proper anchor locker. I told him nothing. You guessed it!

The boat wound up pretty hard on the beach and we had a dickens of a time getting it off. Luckily he and I are both good sized and the kids were able to help.

We went back and drug it up with a fishing lure.

Was pretty funny all the way around.

Of course he had to take some ribbing about "Sea Going Bellhops" not making good deck apes.

When anchored at the favorite sandbar, I sometimes make a run to pick people up, and I'll just untie the boat and leave the anchor set. When I get back, I just tie back up. Although the times I have done this, there were always friends hanging around my spot keeping an eye on the anchor and making sure no one hits it, (or takes my spot) and its usually just a quick 10-20 min trip to the dock and back.

We have found 1 in 41 years of boating

have lost several however