Meet the Designer

Donny Zignego, Ph.D.

 

Donny attended Montana State University and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He went back and finished his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering studying cartilage degradation. Beyond his drive to learn and better the world around him, Donny is an avid fisherman having spent well over 10,000 hours around the world  on a variety of waters. Utilizing a raft and drift boat to efficiently fish many waters, it is common to anchor where promising waters appear. Sometimes this is in slower waters, and other times extremely fast. In fact, there are waters so fast at times that it was not worth anchoring down due to a potential hazard pulling the anchor up if the rope were to twist. No matter slow or fast water, the anchor rope has a tendency to twist when being pulled in. This got frustrating, especially since a pulley was being used on both the drift boat and raft to make the anchor feel half the weight. When the rope twisted, it would feel its actual weight, if not heavier. The tangled anchor rope became a boat sickness Donny wanted to cure, which is where the SpinRx boat anchor pulley came from, “The only prescription for a tangled anchor rope”.


Meet the Originator

Donny Zignego, Ph.D.

 

Donny attended Montana State University and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He went back and finished his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering studying cartilage degradation. Beyond his drive to learn and better the world around him, Donny is an avid fisherman having spent well over 10,000 hours around the world  on a variety of waters. Utilizing a raft and drift boat to efficiently fish many waters, it is common to anchor where promising waters appear. Sometimes this is in slower waters, and other times extremely fast. In fact, there are waters so fast at times that it was not worth anchoring down due to a potential hazard pulling the anchor up if the rope were to twist. No matter slow or fast water, the anchor rope has a tendency to twist when being pulled in. This got frustrating, especially since a pulley was being used on both the drift boat and raft to make the anchor feel half the weight. When the rope twisted, it would feel its actual weight, if not heavier. The tangled anchor rope became a boat sickness Donny wanted to cure, which is where the SpinRx boat anchor pulley came from, “The only prescription for a tangled anchor rope”.