Anchor envy - anyone had one nicked?

[Sybarite]

Whereas a plastic bower anchor might raise eyebrows I have wondered why 'plastic' props are not more common place (and thus cheaper?). And extending the idea - 'plastic' sail drive legs.

sorry for the thread drift.

Jonathan

Kiwi props?

The only thing I had stolen was a drop-nose pin holding the shank.

 

[Neeves]

Ye, Kiwi Props, why are they the exception?

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

Friend I used to race with kept his boat on a mooring off Flushing (Falmouth) … started pulling his chain out of the navel pipe one day and found that his 30 meters was now about 1 meter long! Anchor was still there and enough chain to look normal. Reckoned it was a local fisherman.

 

[Seajet]

That's a really nasty thing to do, risking people's lives for the sake of a bit of chain.

I was once asked to take a big motorsailor across Biscay; as it soon became apparent the owner was an oaf I asked ' have you ever actually had the anchor chain out, measured and marked it every ten feet ? ' and had him do so on the pontoon.

That was nothing to do with seamanship though, just because he'd p'd us all off.