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I've been setting anchor by tieing the anchor line to the tow ring, tow eye, lifting ring, not sure what it's called. There is a ring below the bow that you clamp the hoist to when you pull the boat up onto a trailer. Whatever that ring is called. Seems like a great place to tie off the anchor line to me because it wouldn't make the bow dive down on windy conditions, and wouldn't rub on the deck. I have the bitter end of the anchor tied off closer to the anchor well, I just put an alpine hitch in the anchor line and carabiner it to this tow eye thingy, whatever it's called. 2001 13' Sport. Am I doing it right?

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Very reasonable way to tie up - the boat will definitely ride more easily with the attachment down low, plus the lower angle of the anchor line will increase holding power.

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Thanks, tedious. Further research leads me to believe the thing I'm referring to is the "tow eye". Any idea what knot will work to fasten the anchor line to the tow eye, on a bight? I would love to skip the caribiner.

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Standard double Bow-Line is the knot to use to tie off an anchor line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...le_bowline
imo tying off an anchor rode on the tow eye while on the water is difficult.

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Hi EJO, double bowline can't be tied on a bight. I am looking for a hitch that can be tied to the tow eye mid-line. So let's say I have a 100' anchor line tied to the anchor well, I throw out 50 feet of line with the anchor, I want to tie a hitch to the bow eye with a bight, mid-line, 50 feet up. This is easy to do with a beaner to connect a midline loop to the tow eye. But what if I accidentally drop the beaner or loose it? Surely there must be a hitch to tie on the bight. One that can be weighted by the anchor.

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Not sure what you want then.

You can tie a Bow Line or a loop in the middle of a line using the "Bow Line on a Bite".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowline...on_a_bight

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Either way......trying to tie a knot leaning over or on your belly (in my case a substantial belly). I would say use a cleat on top of the bow or an anchor roller. Sometimes you need an anchor in a pinch and screwing with a knot through a tiny eye not a task I would want.

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Jacobson you can tie a bowline in a bight as shown by the reference Joe gave.,
And gchuba said it best as I mentioned also it is hard to tie off like that with a fat belly hanging over the bow of a 13ft boat.
I too recommend you install a cleat.

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Ejo,
"Substantial" belly. We need not use 3 letter words for the sake of the children who may read our site.

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Joe, you solved it. Bowline on a bight. Duh, that works. I don't have a belly issue and can tie bowlines in the dark with one hand. Yep. That works. Thanks, man.

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Another approach is to have a short dock line attached at one end to the bow/tow eye, and lead the bitter end back into the bows where it is cleated off tidily until needed. An easy way to do this is to just loop the dock line around the tow eye, through the dock line's own spliced eye.

After setting the anchor and paying out most of the scope, take the bitter end of this dockline and attach it to the anchor rode with a rolling hitch. Pay out the remainder of the scope and the dockline will eventually take up the load of the anchor rode on the bow eye. Cleat off the inboard end of the rode, which will not have a load on it.

Reverse process to retrieve the anchor rode. The advantage to this approach is that no one has to reach over the bows to try to tie the rode off on the bow eye while anchoring.