The bob stay certainly would have. I hate sprits for that reason. My anchor was wrapped in a shipping pad on the v-berth during Friday's storm. No noticible chafe after the storm on the pad, although one of my pennants had chafed through the chafe protection and the outer braid on the pennant in a small spot where it ran over the chafe rail just outboard of the chocks. The other pennant was fine and both pennants were still holding.

I am not worried about storms for a few months since the boat was hauled out and transported to the storage yard today. The yard manager personallt winterized all my systems this afternoon