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Originally Posted by FrankZ
Since the mud palms seem so important, and highly suggested, why are the anchors just not made that way? A bolt on solution can't be as good as one forged.
Is it merely storage, or are there times having the palms on the seafloor a bad idea?
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The original reasoning was that the palms could limit burrying. Their purpose was that they aided setting in soft mud.
In mud, they don't restrict burrying. No problem.
In hard sand, the holding
power is remarkable without the
anchor burrying very far, and it turns out they don't really restrict burrying. My understanding is that they are now standard.
Fortress can answer, but since the fabrications are extruded, bolting is the best attachment method. Welding or forging would be worse because of heat effects. There is really no strain on the palms and I doubt they are subject to damage. They arn't structural, anyway.
One "weakness" of this
anchor is that it can generate enormous holding forces with light materials. Thus, it can be damaged in certain tests, but generally under conditions where any equivallent mass anchor would have all ready dragged. Personally, I like it as a kedge (easy to carry) and when twin
anchoring (2 anchors at ~ 120 degree spread to limit swing or face a fast
wind shift). The primarry
danger is bending the shank when pulled hard from a 90 degree angle; my applications do not expose that weakness and thus, it excells.