ROCNA!!! ROCNA!!! RAH!! RAH!! RAH!!
Bull stuff! I was thrilled when I came across this thread. For a while it seemed that I should rent out my wife to obtain the ridiculous number of US bucks needed to
purchase a Rocna. Heck, everybody should get $crewed!
No, I don't own a sailboat...........anymore that is. I currently own a 40' Silverton aftcabin completely enclosed in
canvas so in some ways, I guess I do have a sailbaot of sorts.
First I want to address ell
grass here in
Massachusetts. In past years I used a 33# Bruce and later moved to a 44# Bruce. Those anchors held my 30'
Hunter sailboat like a death grip. That is until we started to find large quantities of ell
grass growing around here. The 44# Bruce would pick up about 100#s of grass and
lost its
reliability. It just would not hold my 25K+#s Silverton. So I graduated to a 55#
Delta.
That turned out to be a dog also but maybe the
Captain had something to do with the problems. Held great in sand and grass but not so good in soft mud. Anyway, I had great apprehensions that caused lost sleep at anchor. Soooo I thought about the Manson or Rocan along with the a few other anchors including the SuperMax. I never found a harsh word written about the Rocna or Manson..... but the cost!!! Looked unreal but it was certainly real
money they wanted. The Rocna remined me of an old Volkswagon I owned, everybody wanted one because it supposedly answered all
reliability issued ever invented my auto manufacturers. Yes, I got sucked into
purchasing one of those pigs along with many others. I still have a broken piston from that pig sitting on my desk. Now the Rocna is joining the large group of popular anchors that lack guaranteed holding capability. What is the world coming to???
Back to my
Delta choice. I selected and purchased today a used 88# Delta because of its size! Heck, the thing is almost the same size as one of my earlier mushroom moorings. I would have purchased a new 88# Delta before I would consider
purchasing an over priced Rocna.
My boat has a 24vdc powered
Maxwell HWC2200
windlass along with almost 200' of 5/16 HT chain. I am not at all concerned about retrieving a heavy anchor.
I will revisit this site later and share holding victories or horror stories with the Delta but at this time, I believe I made the right choice. Just go bigger, that usually works with most anchors!!!
Foggy