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08-06-2014, 12:35
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Oakland, CA
Boat: Freedom 38
Posts: 2,480
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Well that was definitive...
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08-06-2014, 12:57
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#17
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 15,133
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Got a secondhand or consignment place around? If not, go to whatever chandlery you have, find the biggest anchor you can lift, buy that one.
What's best will depend on the bottom type and how and whether you can stow it on your boat, but since you don't mention those things, "best" comes down to the biggest anchor you can lift. "Rule of tonnage" counts.
And of course you'll want two of them, so you can replace the first one after it fouls and has to be cut free.
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08-06-2014, 15:16
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#19
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Martha's Vineyard, MA
Boat: Tiara Open 36
Posts: 24
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Take a serious look at the ULTRA by Quickline. Mine sets and holds reliably in a variety of bottoms.
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08-06-2014, 15:26
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Registered User

Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Caribbean live aboard
Boat: Camper & Nicholson58 Ketch - ROXY Traverse City, Michigan No.668283
Posts: 5,824
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Re: Will someone just choose an anchor for me? I'm exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu Jackson
Because Danforths are great one way anchors. Look up what a kedge anchor is for.
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 also, the Danforth can be raised by hand. Since most of us do not have a windlass back there, it makes sense.
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08-06-2014, 15:43
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#21
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: sydney, australia
Boat: 38 roberts ketch
Posts: 1,309
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Are there any modern anchors that dont work? I've never bought an anchor, always used whatever the boat I happened to buy had, have had a few misadventures but, as with anything on a boat, you need good gear AND luck. Get the biggest one you can manage, any of them will do.
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08-06-2014, 15:54
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Boat: TRT 1200
Posts: 6,260
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
No doubt get a CQR. Somebody in the anchorage needs to provide some entertainment when the wind picks up and that should be you!
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08-06-2014, 16:28
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
Boat: Islander 34
Posts: 5,486
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
- I'm with boaty on the bruce. My cheap 44# bruce clone holds my boat well when the wind blows. Even in sand. Lots of folks still use a bruce.
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08-06-2014, 17:39
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,301
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sailorchic34
- I'm with boaty on the bruce. My cheap 44# bruce clone holds my boat well when the wind blows. Even in sand. Lots of folks still use a bruce.
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Me too. Bruce is still my primary. Sets and holds in a wide range of bottom types. Digs deep (disappears) and holds strong in sand.
If I had to pick another anchor would probably go with a nextgen like Ronca.
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08-06-2014, 17:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,301
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
OP: Now that you've started yet another anchor fight, here is how you use it to make your decision: when the dust settles see which anchor got the most recommendations then buy that one sized one class bigger for your boat than recommended by the manufacturer.
You should have at least two anchors for cruising, so whichever anchor comes in second, get one of those too.
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08-06-2014, 18:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Australia
Boat: 21 ft sail boat
Posts: 347
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sailorchic34
- I'm with boaty on the bruce. My cheap 44# bruce clone holds my boat well when the wind blows. Even in sand. Lots of folks still use a bruce.
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I am glad my name is not Bruce
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08-06-2014, 19:59
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: daytona beach florida
Boat: csy 37
Posts: 2,971
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
35 lb manson supreme. or any other 'new gen' anchor (rocna, spade, etc) of the same weight. you've already made the correct choice in rode - all chain.
i sail in the same region and have now abandoned all my old gen anchors except for a 35 lb hi tensile danforth i carry as a spare. i'm considering getting a second 'new gen' to replace the spare danforth. the new gen anchors hold so well you may be the only boat in the anchorage that isn't dragging ( i was the one in white sound one night ). it costs more, but consider it the best insurance policy you could ever buy.
if you're at all fit, you won't need a windlass where you're going. i'm an old guy and i still haul my 45lb manson supreme on all 3/8" chain by myself; anchorages tend to be shallow so you won't be lifting too much weight at one time.
go buy a 35lb manson supreme. and use at least 7 to 1 scope, more if it's blowing. because you'll be anchoring in 10 to 15 foot depths, or less, 120 feet of chain should be enough; i've never used more than 100 feet.
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08-06-2014, 20:08
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: daytona beach florida
Boat: csy 37
Posts: 2,971
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sailorchic34
- I'm with boaty on the bruce. My cheap 44# bruce clone holds my boat well when the wind blows. Even in sand. Lots of folks still use a bruce.
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maybe on the left coast, but i nearly lost my boat with a 66lb bruce in the bahamas. that was the last time i ever used it. thankfully i had a big cqr to change out to. this was before 'new gen' anchors came along....
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08-06-2014, 22:53
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arctic Ocean
Boat: Under construction 35' ketch (and +3 smaller)
Posts: 2,586
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by onestepcsy37
go buy a 35lb manson supreme. and use at least 7 to 1 scope, more if it's blowing. because you'll be anchoring in 10 to 15 foot depths, or less, 120 feet of chain should be enough; i've never used more than 100 feet.
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And when the tide is more than 10' what's your scope then 
100 meters IMO
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08-06-2014, 23:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brisbane, Australia.
Posts: 1,338
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Re: Will Someone just Choose an Anchor for me? I'm Exhausted.
Quote:
Originally Posted by smj
No doubt get a CQR. Somebody in the anchorage needs to provide some entertainment when the wind picks up and that should be you!
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There is nothing wrong with a CQR they have been holding boats for generations and still are. If you set your anchor properly you should not drag but sometimes it just happens through no fault of your own. Look at what others in your area are using then get what you can afford. To write of a good popular anchor because of some I'll perceived group think is wrong, what it does do is make a CQR a good second hand buy.
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