How to Install a Native Watercraft Anchor Trolley

An anchor trolley allows you choices in placing your kayak or canoe's anchor -- the anchor is attached to a single point on a rope that travels between two pulleys. You can slide your boat along the line, like wash on a clothes line, to change its position while fishing the edges of your favorite "gunk hole." You might improvise an anchor trolley using rope, rings, clips and bungee cord, but the Native American anchor trolley takes the "keep-it-simple" approach and provides straightforward installation in its kit of pulleys and a pre-rigged line on which the anchor is mounted.

Things You'll Need

  • Power drill
  • 1/4-inch drill bit
  • Block of wood
  • Adjustable wrench
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Instructions

    • 1

      Hold one of the pulleys up to the side of the boat, near the back of the boat -- the stern -- above the waterline. Hold a block of wood against the inside of the hull where you will drill through the hull to mount the pulleys, to prevent the inside of the hull from splintering.

    • 2

      Drill holes through the side of the boat, using the pulley as a template -- drill through the holes in the pulley's block using a drill and 1/4-inch drill bit. Insert the bolts, provided with the anchor trolley, through the hull. Thread the nuts onto the bolts. Tighten the nuts securely with an adjustable wrench.

    • 3

      Install the pulley near the front -- or bow -- of the boat, again using the pulley's block as the template. Again, use the block of wood inside the hull, so the fiberglass hull doesn't splinter when the drill bit punches through.

    • 4

      Feed the line through the blocks -- the ring must be on one end of the bottom line, the clip on the other -- after you thread the line through the blocks. Press the movable part of the clip and insert the ring into the clip.