single
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Why has my FX-23 got these 4 holes in the heel? It looks as if something is missing or is it just an old design?
Fortress anchor design
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Pavalijo
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That is where you attach the mud palms. Check the website for a better description of their purpose than i can give!
macd
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+1
Without the palms, the hook is likely not to set as quickly.
Single: since you've missed that, you might also be well-advised to read Fortress' instructions on breaking out the their hook: get the bow over the hook on a short scope, as per normal, then power up in reverse. Then there's the option of changing the flukes' angle to the shank, important in very soft mud.
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single
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I see now. So i guess if i'm always on hard sand i won't need them? http://www.overtons.com/assets/prodman/Assembly_Instructions_Safe_Anchoring.pdf
macd
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Not the case. Despite their name, mud palms evidently help in most substrates: "We have found from our research and from our customers that the Mud Palms help the anchor to set faster in ANY bottom. Our advice is to install the Mud Palms on the anchor and leave them on."
http://fortressanchors.com/resources/faqs
This is also made clear on the very page you linked to.
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single
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I'll try and source some. I bought it second hand and from that webpage, i got the impression they are optional extras.
macd
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Maybe it was different a few years ago, but the mud palms were included with mine, bought in the UK.
(The hook was carried in hold baggage from UK to Turkey and dragged very badly: it ended up in the Canaries. Next time I used chain rather than Thomas Cook, and all was well
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sarabande
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Single
I have a spare set of mud palms and bolts, but they are for a FX11. Here's a pic of the palm plus a ruler. Check against your FX23 if it fits.
Wait one. Photo prob.
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yer tiz !
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I have a spare set of mud palms and bolts, but they are for a FX11. Here's a pic of the palm plus a ruler. Check against your FX23 if it fits.
Wait one. Photo prob.
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yer tiz !
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macd
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Single/sarabande: in case Single doesn't have immediate access to his Fortress, I've just measure the palm on my FX-23. I'm afraid the palm pictured is too small by some margin.
sarabande
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OK, thanks for that !
Anyone else with an FX 11 need palms ?
Anyone else with an FX 11 need palms ?
single
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That's a shame. I've emailed fortress but no doubt they will cost a fortune!
Pavalijo
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Not sure if you read my pm - but I have spare mud palms
Ravi
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Yes, but I need the rest of the anchor as well! Mine was pinched!
I miss it because it was a grand little anchor.
single
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PM sent
Fortress Anchors
Member
Gents,
We have included the Mud Palms inside the box with every Fortress anchor for the past 20 years or so, and as previously noted, we recommend that you permanently install them. The Mud Palms will lift the back end of the Fortress up so that the flukes take a more aggressive angle into the sea bottom, and in turn will assist in the setting performance, particularly in a soft mud bottom.
The OP "single" has a blue model version of the FX-23, which was last manufactured in the early to mid-1990s. We have the Mud Palms in stock for that model, which I will supply for free to any YBW forum member. The only cost will be for shipping & handling, which is usually nominal since we ship parts via the US Postal Service.
Please place your order on the following web page and simply note "Mud Palms free of charge as per Brian" in the comments:
http://fortressanchors.com/warranty
Safe anchoring,
Brian Sheehan
http://fortressanchors.com/
We have included the Mud Palms inside the box with every Fortress anchor for the past 20 years or so, and as previously noted, we recommend that you permanently install them. The Mud Palms will lift the back end of the Fortress up so that the flukes take a more aggressive angle into the sea bottom, and in turn will assist in the setting performance, particularly in a soft mud bottom.
The OP "single" has a blue model version of the FX-23, which was last manufactured in the early to mid-1990s. We have the Mud Palms in stock for that model, which I will supply for free to any YBW forum member. The only cost will be for shipping & handling, which is usually nominal since we ship parts via the US Postal Service.
Please place your order on the following web page and simply note "Mud Palms free of charge as per Brian" in the comments:
http://fortressanchors.com/warranty
Safe anchoring,
Brian Sheehan
http://fortressanchors.com/
macd
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You didn't used to work for Bosch customer relations, did you, Brian.
No, thought not
Nice one.
No, thought not
Nice one.
single
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What superb customer support. Why can't all suppliers be so good.
Neeves
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It must be unheard of that a company's life time warranty of free replacement parts (no questions asked) covers a product, not now owned by the original owner, that is between 30 and 35 years old. Equally extraordinary - the implication is that this particular model, 30/35 years old, is different to current production - yet parts are still in stock.
Jonathan
Jonathan
macd
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That doesn't necessarily mean the mud palms are dimensionally different from the old ones, Jonathan: I daresay one FX-23 palm fits all FX-23s. And your math is out: 20+ years is more like. Still a very magnanimous gesture from Fortress, though (and one they entirely deserve to recoup in future good-will sales).
Neeves
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Mac, you are correct my maths was at fault, sloppy comes to mind - but I've increasingly been of the impression that no-one reads previous posts - you have restored my faith.
I hope people read this thread, including other manufacturers in the marine industry.
Jonathan