Neeves
Well-known member
So if I may ask after hundreds of Anchor thread and X amount of anchor video can anyone hold their hands up and say they have found the ideal anchor?
As anyone who brought a NG anchor been convicted to throw that anachos away and buy a new new NG anchor because of a video they seen .
I test anchor, as you might know by now and I use an aluminium Excel, and aluminium Spade and 2 x Fortress (a small one for sand and a bit one for sloshy mud). I've mentioned I use this quiver of anchors for years now. Most people would say my anchors are too small (their steel equivalents for Excel and Spade are 15kg and we sail a cat with the windage of a 45' AWB. Guess what Panope is saying about which anchors are better - maybe soon people will realise also its design not weight.
The Excel and Spade were both chosen based on my own testing. The Fortress choice was strongly influenced by the Chesapeake mud tests (which is why we have a big FX 37 but its far too big in seabeds other than slushy mud and (keeping to small is sufficient) we also carry a FX 16)
So I believe in the numbers.