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Once they started chanting I couldn't give up on the effort 
In Response To: Max, you should have dumped the 90 feet ()
You're right, of course, and it quickly became clear we should have pulled out an entirely different anchor on a line.
OTOH I did eventually get the anchor far enough out and set well enough to pull us off, and gave everyone a chuckle in the meantime
Messages In This Thread
- anchor mount opinions
- I'd keep the Danforth in the cockpit locker, low and forward.
- I'm like Tom. I have a 22 pound Claw on the bow roller,and a 12 pound Hi tensile Danforth in the cockpit locker,
- Danforth on rail mount...
- I have my Danforth rail mounted on the pulpit
- Questions, Craig...
- Cockpit locker, 30' chain in a canvas bag for easy deployment by dinghy
- Max, you should have dumped the 90 feet
- Once they started chanting I couldn't give up on the effort
- Once they started chanting I couldn't give up on the effort
- That is funny. I have rowed all my kedges out over the years.
- Max, you should have dumped the 90 feet
- I have the same set up on my Shannon PH38. What
- Custom Bow Anchor Setup
- Rather than play with different anchors for different bottoms,
- Properly sized?
- The recommendations for Rocna and Manson are "much higher"
- They are not "upsized"
- Not only weight, the whole profile doesn't work for me
- I dispute putting a CQR & Delta in the same 'old' styele class
- OK, let's call it a transitional design then
- In the Bahamas, way back in the 80's,...you could often hear some guy bragging about his anchor on the vhf,...
- OK, let's call it a transitional design then
- My anchoring priorities are;#1-where, #2-how, #3 size, #4-$, #5-make.
- They are not "upsized"
- 1 oversized anchor and use it all the time
