Patent ID: 8104418

Claim:
An apparatus for use in combination with an elongate pole to anchor a marine vessel to the bottom of a body of water, said apparatus comprising: an anchor fixture including a base and a tube carried by and extending across said base; said base being mountable exteriorly proximate a peripheral edge of the vessel with a longitudinal axis of said tube oriented to extend in a generally horizontal direction; said base having a central opening that is communicably alignable with an underlying opening in the vessel; and an adjustable pole holder including an elongate stem and an elongate pole mounting sleeve joined and extending laterally relative to said stem, said pole holder being selectively alternatable between a stowed condition wherein said stem is inserted through said central opening and into the underlying opening in the vessel and said sleeve extends laterally relative to said tube and a deployed condition wherein said stem is inserted through said tube and said sleeve is held for receiving the elongate pole, said tube including a pair of axially aligned and spaced apart tube segments disposed on respective sides of said central opening, said sleeve extending between said tube segments in the stowed condition.