anchoring beach umbrellas?

[prairiewindmomma]

The kids and I are waiting and watching to see if we can chance upon a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle nesting site. (I know the odds are low, but the kids know it's peak season.)  It's super windy....any ideas for anchoring beach umbrellas to survive 30mph winds?  

 

 

[Arcadia]

Lots and lots of bricks with rope. If you can borrow those for anchoring small boats, those would work. My middle school camping was in high wind gust beach areas :lol:

[Seasider]

Hmmm....my beach umbrellas have flaps that roll down the sides with pockets at the end; sand goes in the pockets to anchor the umbrella. On windy days I bring along dive weights to stick in the pockets. If you want to tether it down you will need sand stakes (different from regular tent stakes).

 

[macmacmoo]

When we went tot he beach last year my dad had a neat little t shape tube thingy that could be screwed into the sand and then a screw thingy to hold the umbrella in the tube.

 

Would it withstand 30 mph wind? No idea since it was just barely windy enough to fly a kite.

[stephanier.1765]

I'm just home from the beach where it was very windy and not single person's umbrella survived the wind. So I looked at our news site to check the wind speed and it was only 22 mph. It's not looking good for your 30 mph. :(