Oh..Thomas let Seafox stay up late, lucky Seafox
I think the
vacation CF had in mind is a week of scrubbing and polishing Wheels
boat, masthead to bottom of the
keel I'm not sure that's my idea of fun, actually it's not, I've just done it to mine and Wheels is a lot bigger.
Don't knock Rocna just due to that. Sure I would do things a bit different but they are not a bunch of bunnies, except one maybe but that's more a personal issue he has in my opinion.
Don't knock the video quality either, that was mostly me and I can assure you (if you can't already guess) I'm no Steven Spielberg. I thought Craig did a good job editing into a more usable format to give 'some' idea of how it works. I did like his clever and well done animation bit, very cool. Again I (we i.e you) would have done it slightly differently I'm sure but then we are not Rocna. If you watch the vid you may even see me, I'm the real cute one with sexy legs
At the end of the day it is
marketing. It's just the same as most do to varying degrees of effectiveness. It will always have a slant towards the target product and try to knock the competitors. The way to look at the Rocna
marketing is the same as you look at anyone else's, with a grain of
salt, as they say. Yes there is one or 2 things that are just wrong but they are mostly in the peripheral and does not detract from the high performance the product itself has.
Yes, no argument that Manson is a classy very professional outfit. They wouldn't have been in business so long, make so many anchors and supply who they do if they weren't. They are an absolute joy to deal with, probably one of the best suppliers I have, very easily best when talking just anchors. Something one or 2 others certainly aren't.
I'm in with Midlandone a bit with his comment the Spade and derivatives are pretty similar performance wise. Every thing we have seen and done suggests the only differences 'maybe' right up near breakout so a place 99% of boaters will never see or even be likely to get near anyway. The biggest differences are
price and the subtle differing features each have.
I also agree Midlandone could do some
work on his spite issue
It will only get worse if left untreated. I'd prescribe a month or so in the Bay of Island, anchored on a Rocna obviously, while being hand feed cold beers and crackers by a Rocna representative, maybe one who does look good in a bikini though (you're out of that one luckily Craig
). I'm sure that will fix the issue and get him back on an even
keel.
The '25% more' comment was made by me not any manufacturer I'm aware of. It is the average number we seem to be getting between the newer ones (inc the alloy Spades) and the
Delta (just ahead of good plows) in our playing generally. Note: we have not done comparisons between flat anchors i.e the
Fortress and the plow/spade styles fully as yet. The
Fortress (most danforth patterns) does get bloody good numbers in soft bottom though, bloody good. Let down a lot on harder ones though.
Steve Dashew (I hope I spelt it right) is a bit of a cruising guru or so I'm told. He had a
boat called Windhorse (I think that's the one) build here by Kelly Archer. A very 'interesting' beast which I do quite like in a
funny way even though it has no
sails. Steve was a tried and true Bruce fan and wouldn't use anything else. He now has a Rocna on the bow and has been singing it's praises. Mind you the
anchor would probably hold a small container ship it is that large (Steve is a self professed fan of BIG is not big enough) and I've no idea if Steve is comparing it to Bruce's only or a decent range. I'm pretty sure Steve didn't get paid to say anything though.
So now answer my questions posed a few posts back and let me do some
work
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