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Originally Posted by boatman61
I find the biggest problems are the Sheila's..
Genuine Bruce's don't do drag..
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These days there are no rules on who can and cannot do drag.
I do a couple of thousand nautical miles of coastal cruising a year and about ten years ago gave up on plough type anchors. They were great in soft mud bottoms but I would often have to drag them all over the anchorage to find a soft spot to get them to set and the curved blades would hold clumps of clay and stiff mud preventing them from resetting on
wind shifts.
The
boat I have now had a
Delta which I put up with for a couple of years before replacing it with a Bruce. The Bruce sets pretty well as soon as it hits bottom in a wide range of bottom types without much
scope however I think the Bruce type, although it sets and resets more reliably, drags sooner than the
Delta did.
Reliable resetting becomes very important when one uses
anchorages with strong tidal flows and
wind against tide occurs.
I carried a monster galvanized
steel Danforth, which I had modified to allow disassembly and
storage in the
bilge as a panic
anchor, on my last
boat but was obliged to deny myself it's reassuring presence on this one as there are no hatches large enough to allow it into the
bilge. The stock on it was about four foot long and made from 4" x 1" flat bar. I'm thinking about building one from aluminium in three pieces for this boat.