Flook anchor?

[prv]

(Apparently it's meant to rhyme with "hook" and "look", not "fluke" and "puke".)

Anyone tried one?

I'm not so much asking about its party trick, as about whether it has adequate holding as an anchor.

I'm toying with the idea of getting one as a kedge. When folded flat it will fit nicely in my dedicated kedge locker (always anchoring bows-to, those Scandiwegians), and for some kedging uses the gimmick could be handy.

Cheers,

Pete

 

[noelex]

It was popular in Australia 15 years ago, but user reports were not very encouraging. The holding ability was poor.
It requires all rope rode to "fly".

Get a Fortress, or a Gardian instead.

 

[FullCircle]

It was popular in Australia 15 years ago, but user reports were not very encouraging. The holding ability was poor.
It requires all rope rode to "fly".

Get a Fortress, or a Gardian instead.

+1.
I bought a flook cheap at a boat jumble.
The telling point here is that I now have an FX16 instead.....

 

[prv]

It requires all rope rode to "fly".

Indeed - my plan was to have a boat's length of substantial chain (the non-rusty part cut off the bower chain I'm about to replace) to shackle on when dropping it in-place, and otherwise use only rope when flying it out. In the latter case I wouldn't be subjecting it to anything like main anchoring loads (I don't buy their suggestion that you can fly it out and then pull yourself off a sandbar) - it's more to help with the "hmm, we're starting to swing a bit close to that rock" situation, or "we're grinding the fenders pretty hard against this quay". If putting out a kedge in those situations involved digging out the dinghy, blowing it up, getting the outboard etc ready, then perhaps I wouldn't bother - or at least sit and worry for longer before I did.

Pete

 

[prv]

+1.
I bought a flook cheap at a boat jumble.
The telling point here is that I now have an FX16 instead.....

OK, thanks - always more inclined to listen to experience than theorising

Poor setting? Poor holding? Both? Were you using it as bower or kedge?

Cheers,

Pete

 

[jamesjermain]

I tested this when it was first introduced as the Flying Anchor - it must have been in the mid-eighties. It didn't fly and it didn't hold. Quite useful as a large paper weight or to hold down agricultural fleece in the veg patch.

 

[prv]

OK, point taken

I'll go back to my original plan of a Fortress or Guardian. My main problem there is the length of the stock bar which means only a relatively small one will fit through the hatch.

Pete

 

[FullCircle]

OK, thanks - always more inclined to listen to experience than theorising

Poor setting? Poor holding? Both? Were you using it as bower or kedge?

Cheers,

Pete

wot JJ said. It was a dud in every respect except the galvanising did not leap off at first use.