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Sandy,
Setting it up is pretty easy. Splice about two and half to three feet of line to the bottom of the ball and then splice a biiig snap on the other end of the line. The way it works is you put the stainless ring over the rode and than snap the ball through both eyes of the ring, so it can't come off the rode. Then throw the whole thing overboard. Run the boat up at and angle to the anchor line until it comes taught and then steer directly away from the anchor. What happens is that the ball slides down the rode until it is directly over the anchor and then the bouyancy of the ball pulls the anchor straight up. Much less likely to bend flukes when you're pulling straight up. When the anchor is all the way up the flukes will catch in the ring and you'll notice that the ball is crashing around much more than before. then you just stop the boat and pick up the line.
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