The ground tackle I currently carry on my
boat is a Bruce with 50' of chain and 150' of
rope. I find this "adequate" since we primarily sail the
boat out of a marina, and it makes sense to keep her "light", given that we rarely
anchor.
We
anchor overnight perhaps 3 or 4 times per season, plus we may go for a
cruise for, say, 10 days in summer.
The few times we anchor overnight, however, I feel uneasy because I would much prefer a new-generation anchor rather than the Bruce, and would be much more comfortable with more chain.
Thus, in preparation of our next
cruise, I was thinking... would it makes sense, just prior to a trip in which we know that we would anchor, to "swap" the Bruce with, say, a
Rocna (I would not want to have the
Rocna permanently, because it has a much higher probability than the Bruce of catching the
gennaker on the rollbar...) and "prolong the chain by, say, an extra hundred feet, with an extra shackle. Then, at the end of the trip, switch back to the "lighter" configuration and take the Rocna and extra chain home...
This would make sense to me, at least in principle - then, why I am not seeing anybody doing such a thing?... I see other boats at my
dock who have somewhat undersized ground tackle because, like me, primarily sail out of the
dock and do not deploy the anchor much... However, like me, once in a while they do, but do not seem to care of swapping the anchor...
What am I not getting? Why don't people do this? Is swapping anchors so awkward to be impractical? is adding some extra chain temporarily such a no-no? (I understand it is not ideal, but does it really matter for just a few days?). What am I not seeing? Thank you!
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