anchors - a different question

[Bosun Higgs]

Someone posted, in another place, the surprising argument that boaters chose the anchor that is best for them and stick with it. From personal observation, it seems to me that boaters chose an anchor that appeals at the time / is cheap / comes with the boat /seemed like a good idea at the jumble, with the result that he ends up ownin several anchors including ones that dont fit te bow roller etc.


So how many anchors do you have inc those in the garden shed. My score is 6

 

[puddock]

Kobra II (main bower) with 50 metres 8mm chain & 60 metres 3/4 warp, Fortess with 15 m 6mm chain & 50 metres 1/2 " warp & folding Fishermans (Admiralty type?) as an alternative - NE coast Scotland can be a bit rocky and kelpy

 

[Twister_Ken]

One on the front (Spade) one at the back (Fortress) one in the shed (Fisherman).

 

[onesea]

So how many anchors do you have inc those in the garden shed. My score is 6

I am telling you you are asking the wrong question! It should be how many anchors do you have and more important what type is best?

For me a CQR in locker Fortress Ready to use and a couple of dinghy of dinghy anchors...

 

[Uricanejack]

Five

1 Bruce 33Lbs I think
1 Danforth a bit smaller
2 folding Grappels
1 Phonnecian

A more interesting question might be how many boats do I have. At least my wife seams to think so, She mentions it quite regularly. For some reason the ratio of boats to bathrooms and the age of the kitchen seams to be quite a concern.

She has never questioned the number of anchors I'v got though

 

[SeamanStaines]

12.6 mtr Live aboard Catamaran


We carry :-

27kg Manson Supreme as our primary bower anchor with 50mts of chain and 200mts of warp spliced to the chain
25kg Delta as a kedge and backup bower (this is on 10mts of chain and a selection of warps, I also have the shackles to lay it on the same chain as the bower)
7kg Fortress as an easily handle-able kedge
40kg Admiralty pattern as a storm anchor and rock pick. I found this one in a surplus store in Plymouth (Bogie knights), never been used, forged and clearly very expensively produced for a small launch, set me back all of £50!
3kg Grapnal for the dinghy

I also have the SWMBO's 30kg free weight training set and two 10kg kettle bells if all else fails!!!

 

[doug748]

I have a small, new, Danforth attached to the trailer in the garden. (Should be on the boat/can't be bothered.)

I have a 15kg Bruce attached to the ladders - ditto. (Too large for my back)

I have a folding thing in the dinghy (never uesd)

I have a 10kg Bruce on the boat. (Ahh, just right)

I also have a steel FOB type thing, that I have never seen the like. (I call it the kedge and never use it)

So, it's five.

 

[Blueboatman]

Wot TwisterKen said but for 'shed' and 'fish' read 'bilge' and ' forged navy pattern sodding big fisherman wot saved a similar boat in the Azores once' . I do like to feel ' lucky'

Ah, the dinghy has two grapnels . And a spare large fisherman in my garage . As you do..and chain.. And spare handraulic windlass . Thinking of putting that on the stern deck but (???) guess that the cockpit primary winches are more powerful..

 

[Kelpie]

Feeling a bit inadequate in this thread. I have the same number of anchors as boats.
- 10kg Bruce copy as bower on the yacht
- 15kg folding fisherman kept in a lockers as my SHTF anchor (used a few times when I had only just bought the boat and was paranoid)
- 4kg Manson Supreme bought for the Wayfarer but now used on the yacht along with a large angel, to surprisingly good effect as a kedge in light conditions

 

[duncan99210]

20kg Rocna as the bower, Guardian 23 (cheaper version of Fortress) as a kedge, 12kg generic Danforth type as a spare in a locker plus a 4 kg folding grapnel for the tender and fishing bikes out of the water. We did have a 20kg CQR but it fell off the deck into the oggin in Sant Carles this winter and I really couldn't be bothered trying to recover the usless bit of scrap iron.

 

[prv]

20kg Spade on the bow.

Small grapnel for the dinghy.

Gonna get a fortress or danforth as a kedge, once I figure out the biggest I can fit in the stern locker.

Not interested in collecting anchors in the shed, so just passed on the 15kg knockoff Bruce off the bow to a mate.

Pete

 

[Woodlouse]

40lb CQR and a 40lb fisherman. Not seen the dinghy grapnel for many years but it must be in the shed somewhere.

 

[Poignard]

So how many anchors do you have inc those in the garden shed. My score is 6

35lb genuine CQR - 1 off (on board)
35lb ersatz CQR - 1 off
25lb ersatz CQR - 1 off
20lb genuine CQR - 1 off (on board)
20lb Danforth - 1 off
25lb genuine lead weights - 2 off
Dinghy grapnels - 2 off

 

[NornaBiron]

45kg Spade on bow
50kg fisherman's, storm anchor
35kg genuine CQR, until recently was on the bow
15kg genuine Bruce
Small grapnel
Small Danforth type for dinghy

 

[Grumpybear]

35lb genuine CQR as bower
Small Danforth as kedge
Tiny grapnel for dinghy
Defunct Seagull and defunct Honda BF2 in garage as 21st century Phoenician equivalents

 

[Neeves]

Why do people carry Fishermans as a 'storm anchor'?

Weed anchor, yes - artifact in case donation needed for Yacht Club decoration, yes - storm anchor??

Jonathan

 

[Blueboatman]

Are you genuinely asking or really saying 'dont bother, there are other/better choices'?
I ( so its IME only) have used a fish anchor to great effect in thick weed over rock over other anchor chains over old wrecks over debris over sand and to hook old harbour chains too!
And it stows flat , upright, unobtrusively in the aft deep bilge sump well tied in but handy like .

 

[Neeves]

Are you genuinely asking or really saying 'dont bother, there are other/better choices'?
I ( so its IME only) have used a fish anchor to great effect in thick weed over rock over other anchor chains over old wrecks over debris over sand and to hook old harbour chains too!
And it stows flat , upright, unobtrusively in the aft deep bilge sump well tied in but handy like .

Sorry, genuinely asking! For heavy weed, cannot beat a Fishermans - but as a storm anchor, mentioned by others, seems an odd choice (but maybe people get stuck in weed anchorages in storms - we are wimps, when storms are forecast we scurry off to the most sheltered good holding bay we can find). But to be useful they are so heavy as to defy deployment

Jonathan

 

[Neeves]

We carry:

15kg Anchor Right gal Excel (all chain rode 8mm 50m)
A80 Spade
FX-23

We also carry 30m of 8mm chain spliced to 40m of 10mm triple strand nylon and use 2 x 14m nylon snubbers.

In the shed, I'm too embarrassed to mention - but then I test anchors (but it includes a fishermans)

Jonathan

 

[Blueboatman]

Sorry, genuinely asking! For heavy weed, cannot beat a Fishermans - but as a storm anchor, mentioned by others, seems an odd choice (but maybe people get stuck in weed anchorages in storms - we are wimps, when storms are forecast we scurry off to the most sheltered good holding bay we can find). But to be useful they are so heavy as to defy deployment

Jonathan

Yup, heavy and awkward and only as good as the size of the flukes in softer ground of course....
I reckon there are just a lot of them still around at boat jumbles.

I have one that a lady wanted to buy to decorate her garden with when I did a wee informal clear out . Seemed a terrrrible waste. So it is decorating my garage until a mate loses an anchor, hey ho.