Anchor Poll

[Capn Morgan]

Bruce.

Well, sorta...

[Ken Andersen]

Originally Posted by sv Winterlude

What NO Spade choice in your poll?????.... probably what all those "other" responses are from....

We have a 44# steel Spade (Passport 37) and we've anchored from Annapolis to Florida, throughout the Western Caribbean - Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama... all the way to Cartagena Colombia and then back to SW Florida.

Our "storm" anchor is a way oversized Fortress FX-37 that we handset from the dinghy since we only have one anchor roller.... for the Spade.

The new anchors may be great, but we wouldn't trade our Spade!

Oops! forgot the to say something,

Yup, that's why I'm in the "other". My primary's a Spade and I wouldn't trade it either. Ken

[Cotemar]

Rocna 20Kg / 44 Lbs Anchor, 176 feet of 5/16 High Tensile G4 chain, 200 feet of 8 strand plait rope
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...tml#post452041

Fortress 23, 40 feet of G4 chain, 150 feet of 8 stranded plaited rode in a bucket
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...tml#post316215

[atoll]

100lb bugel on 300 ft 10mm chain
100lb bugel on 300 ft 1' three braid nylon/polyester rode
kedges: 65lb brittany 150" kevlar 3/4 yacht braid
45lb cqr 10m 10mm chain,200"3/4 nylon/polyester
40lb danforth,200" 6mm chain
boat (19m) 63 ft 26000 kg,mono sloop

[jnrdafoe]

Waiting for our Sarca Excel (66 lbs) to replace a 45 lb Manson Supreme - For Sale
Fortress FX-55
Thinking about a third, any suggestions?
41' weighing in at 12.5T

[barnakiel]

Bruce. The next one will be Spade/Manson type but it takes some modifications of our bowsprit that is not compatible with Manson/Rocna roll bar. Spade will fit but not available locally.

b.

[ranger58sb]

Max16/44-lb pivoting SuperMax is primary.

Fortress FX-37 primary spare, dismantled and in a bag but relatvely quickly deployable on it's own rope/chain rode.

Delta (35?) on board, too...

-Chris

[Hydra]

Primary: 10kg (22#) NZ-made Rocna
Storm: 15kg (33#) Spade
Kedge: Fortress FX23

I gave away the plough that was the previous storm anchor (couldn't take money for it). The Britany that was the bower anchor is now in my basement.

Alain

[boatsail]

35 Manson boss and chain all chain

[sailorchic34]

44# bruce clone, 27# danford, 35# northhill, 33# bruce.. guess I'm old school..

[Hudson Force]

Originally Posted by sailorchic34

................ 35# northhill.............. guess I'm old school..

Yeah, I quess the Northhill is the epitome of "old school"! I used to have a big Northhill on my bow about thirty years ago. I loved that anchor for it's holding capabilities in a variety of substrates, but I always had to set a wind-up alarm clock (also old school) so I could wake up to unfoul and reset at the tide change. Keep that Northhill,- I think they will soon be as rare as slide rules!

[carstenb]

Primary 30 kg rocna
Secondary 23 kg Bruce
Tertiary fortress 55
And a 15 kg graphel that I sometimes toss if we are just having lunch

[hpeer]

33' 16,000lb
Rocha 20 kg 45lb
CQR. 35 lb
Danforth ~25 lb
Fisherman ~59 lb


44'. 44,000lb
Spade, steel 66 lb
CQR 45lb
Danforth ~35lb
Luke fisherman 75 lb

Both boats came with CQR which I replaced.

[hpeer]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Bruce. The next one will be Spade/Manson type but it takes some modifications of our bowsprit that is not compatible with Manson/Rocna roll bar. Spade will fit but not available locally.

b.

That's how I ended up with a spade, apature through sprit would not allow roll bar types or many others. Cabo Rico's, I believe, can have similar issues.

Am replacing bow sprit this winter with ss due to weird corrosion problem on old one. I will move anchor rollers so I can use roll bar type, and so wings on spade don't foul bob stay wire, and two anchors don't bang. Made a cad drawing, next to order steel.

Now that we have all this nice data some bored soul could make a db or spreadsheet out of it, anchor weight vs displacement, etc.

[Sandero]

Interesting results. It does not reflect what is seen on the bows of boats in marinas. Perhaps these boats don't anchor much?