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If you are serious about an anchor book
In Response To: Fatty Goodlanders latest book. Creative Anchoring ()
the one to get is Alain Poiroud's "The Complete Anchoring Handbook". Not to diminish the amount of anchors Fatty has sunk, but Alain has as much experience with far more engineering knowledge and methodical experimentation behind him.
Mark
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- 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
- 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,...
- Fatty Goodlanders latest book. Creative Anchoring
- If you are serious about an anchor book
- I agree Tom, but think you missed my point
- Fatty Goodlanders latest book. Creative Anchoring
- 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
