A device for quickly anchoring and releasing a boat in shallow water comprising:
- an anchor sleeve, cylindrical in shape, passing through a boat hull, having a top end, a bottom end, a bore extended longitudinally therethrough, an interior peripheral surface, and an exterior peripheral surface, having screw threads machined into the external peripheral surface of the top end of said anchor sleeve;
- a sleeve liner, cylindrical in shape, having a top end, a bottom end, a bore extended longitudinally therethrough, an interior peripheral surface, an exterior peripheral surface, and a notch machined into one side of the top end of said sleeve liner at a 90 degree angle to said sleeve liner's longitudinal axis extending completely through one side of the sleeve liner's interior peripheral surface, with said sleeve liner being of a length equivalent to the length of said anchor sleeve and positioned within said anchor sleeve;
- a locking insert, having an outer radial surface, an inner flat surface, a top flat surface and bottom flat surface, sized to fill the notch machined into one side of the top end of said sleeve liner when said sleeve liner is positioned within said anchor sleeve;
- an anchor pole, cylindrical in shape, having a blunt top end, a pointed bottom end, a large flat surface machined along one side of said anchor pole, parallel to said anchor pole's longitudinal axis, two smaller flat surfaces machined along its longitudinal axis, chamfered at an angle on either side of the larger flat surface, said anchor pole sized to allow movement up and down through said sleeve liner;
- an attaching nut, having a bore extended longitudinally therethrough, an interior peripheral surface with screw threads machined therein, and an exterior peripheral surface, said attaching nut positioned such that the screw threads machined into the interior peripheral surface of said attaching nut mesh with the screw threads machined into the exterior peripheral surface of the top end of said anchor sleeve;
- an upper flange, having an upper surface, a flat bottom surface, a smaller bore extended longitudinally therethrough large enough to allow said anchor pole to pass therethrough, a larger bore drilled from the flat bottom surface of said upper flange, extending only part-way into said upper flange, leaving an interior circumferential surface within said upper flange, further having screw threads machined into the interior circumferential surface, sized such that the interior circumferential surface's screw threads mesh with the screw threads at the top end of said anchor sleeve, allowing said upper flange to be secured thereby to said anchor sleeve;
- a hand grip, wrapped around and secured to the top end of said anchor pole, having a thickness large enough so as to prevent said hand grip from passing through the bore of said upper flange;
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- a bottom flange, having a lower surface, a bore extended longitudinally therethrough large enough to allow said anchor pole to pass therethrough, and secured to a boat hull bottom;