Manual impact stake driving apparatus

Claim 1

A manually driven, removable stake apparatus for anchoring and securing watercraft at an adjustable distance therefrom, said stake apparatus comprising in combination: a stake having a piercing point at one end thereof and a driving and pulling stake head at the opposite end thereof, said stake head having upper and lower impact surfaces thereon; sleeve means having upper and lower impact stops at opposite ends thereof for slidably confining said stake head therebetween, whereby said stake may be manually driven into a surface in response to impact between the upper impact surface of said stake head and the upper impact stop of said sleeve means, and may be manually pulled from such surface in response to impact between the lower impact surface of said stake and the lower impact stop of said sleeve means; flange means disposed radially on said sleeve means for restricting the depth to which said stake may be driven in such surface; a quantity of line storable on said sleeve means; means on said sleeve means defining spool means for rotationally receiving and storing said line thereon; and line hook means secured to and carried by said sleeve means for hooking about said line to prevent, during periods of pulling force against said line, rotation of said sleeve means and thereby to prevent paying out of said hooked line.