What is your Bigness Factor?

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Originally Posted by Kettlewell

Anchor size poll above. Take your main anchor weight in pounds (1 kg=2.2 lbs) and divide by your LOA in feet (1 meter=3.28 feet). The result is your Bigness Factor.

For example, my Finnsailor 38 carries a 45 lb. main anchor, so 45/38=1.18, or on the high side of what I have labeled "Normal."

Let the quibbling begin about the factor ranges!

The LOA is almost irrelevant. What counts is mass or displ. We are an older "classic" with 55,000 disp and 36 tons on the hook. When that mass is tossed by waves, it doesn't matter if we are 40 or 80 feet long. The new Rocna 55 kg replacing the 74# CQR still looks like tin foil pasted to the bow.