Mantus Anchor or Rocna ?

[The Garbone]

Originally Posted by Mantus Anchors

Guys ---- St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show 2013 Come and join we will have tons of giveaways and our usual but crazy boat show discount

Define crazy. 60%? Now that would work.

I have been trying to convince the wife to take a weekend off from working on the boat so we can do the St Pete show and saving on an anchor would help. Otherwise I will probable be painting or rebedding windows.

[memelet]

I posted once before that the preventer nut on my 65lb boss sheared off. I did not see it happen but strongly suspect it slammed against the roller side plate on the way up.

In general I absolutely love my boss. Coming from a 45lb Chinese CQR on a Passport 42 maybe that's not saying much.

[Delancey]

[QUOTE=EighthWonder;1396860]

Originally Posted by cwyckham

And to the other...yep! By the time I'm done with shipping and taxes...blah blah blah...my 88lb Rocna was about $1500. Sometimes I think dropping a 50 gallon drum of concrete off the side with my crane would have been better!! ;-)

I'll say it again, holy crap! $17.00 per pound for a steel anchor? Galvanized? The Roncas don't even have a bottle opener incorporated into the design. Did it come in a velvet lined box?

Just kidding about the velvet lined box. I actually think the Rocna is a generally good anchor design. I am sure you will be happy with it.

As for the bottle opener I assume they include one free with your purchase, no?

[Factor]

Originally Posted by noelex 77

I have seen very few objective reports on the Boss. The lack of positive feedback is surprising. It is a new anchor and I would not dismiss it yet, but the roll bar anchors are very well proven and at the top of the anchoring hierarchy and that is what I would buy..

And yet at least two manufacturers say their non roll bar anchors are at least the equal if not better than their roll bar varieties?

[EighthWonder]

As for the bottle opener I assume they include one free with your purchase, no?[/QUOTE]

I told my wife it came with one.....just so she wouldn't use ME as the anchor.

[SailFastTri]

Originally Posted by memelet

I posted once before that the preventer nut on my 65lb boss sheared off. I did not see it happen but strongly suspect it slammed against the roller side plate on the way up.

In general I absolutely love my boss. Coming from a 45lb Chinese CQR on a Passport 42 maybe that's not saying much.

Must have been defective. (I worry about that happening to the tab on my D-shackle pin that attaches my anchor, and it never has. But I've slammed it more than once despite efforts to be cautious about the way it enters the roller. I check it each time it comes aboard, before re-launch. Lose than pin and I might lose the boat. A nut sticks out less than a D-shackle pin.)

[EighthWonder]

Well...my anchor came...it's HUGE!!! I'm Soooo happy with that. I'll sleep like a baby. Only one question I have to ask myself: Will my windlass actually lift that thing?!

[chrisjs]

Sleep well!! The only time (in many hundred anchorings) our 40kg Rocna failed to dig and hold immediately was when it picked up a large concrete block on its fluke just off the USCG station in Cape May.

[motion30]

What size is it. And what boat is it going on ?

[motion30]

Ok I read your previous post for you order to 88 pounder for your 25 times our baby. I bought the 105 pound Manish for my 40000 pounds our boat and yes it is very big

[EighthWonder]

I noticed one of the things that rocna recommends is not to oversize the anchor as they have already taken that into consideration. Looking at their sizing charts I'm well within range. Compared to what I have now, this anchor probably doesn't even have to set and it will hold me in place! lol
;-)

[EighthWonder]

Originally Posted by chrisjs

Sleep well!! The only time (in many hundred anchorings) our 40kg Rocna failed to dig and hold immediately was when it picked up a large concrete block on its fluke just off the USCG station in Cape May.

There wasn't a body tied to that block was there?!?
;-P

[chrisjs]

No body that I saw!!! Mind you the current there is pretty strong!

Our Rocna is a 40kg (88lb) with about 350ft of BBB 3/8 chain. I usually go heavy with scope, but we have weathered some good blows with that set-up. Our boat is a Selene 47 (50ft overall) with approx. 65,000lb displacement.

[canadianllama]

Wow eightwonder, how bigs your boat? That's a big anchor. My manual windlass (right arm, left arm, back) cringed when i saw it :-)

[Blc7]

I just upgraded my 55 lb Delta to an 85 lb Mantus (from the St. Pete Show). It is assembled and soon to be added to 200' of 3/8" G4 HT Chain. I will definitely be sleeping more securely at night. (I have a 42' Lagoon.)