One anchor or two?

Re: That Flook

Needs no chain, packs almost flat and weighs very little. It offers excellent holding in sand/mud and IMHO is a very good compromise for an emergency/kedging anchor. Sometimes, you really do want a kedge...

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Re: Pack it in

Looks like you got away with it!

I was reading an other tread today, which was very interesting but it suddenly went! Was I dreaming?

Tom


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Whilst on the subject of deploying second anchors, I put my second one on in tandem with the main anchor when the weather deteriorates.

Might be old news or a useful tip.

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I'veused this technique, but it doesn't seem to work too well, two independant anchors works better, normally when in tandem, if one drags, the other just follows it. IMHO.

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Re: Pack it in

I dont think the comments raised are limited to just this thread. Rather a culmination of people bitting there tongues for a very long time. The result being an explosion or implosion as folk either say some thing or quietly dissapear.

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Haydn
 
Ill have to try some scientific tests on the beach this winter. I also think motor boaters should worry more about dragging considering the size and weight of anchors that some come with. Whilst shopping around for 36 to 38' flybridge, Ive noticed that some anchors look tiny compared to my 25 kg plough used on Piccolo, 31 feet sailing boat.

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Tandem anchors

I rigged tandem anchors up on the West Coast of Scotland when I had eight trailboats hanging off either side of a 37ft flybridge boat. Preferred laying two of our own to the trailboats dropping anything.

It looked like the main Delta was holding as well as the hinging fluke type cheap second anchor that I had aboard but when we came to take the second one in again we found it was doing all of the holding. The chain on the main, while looking reasonable taught, was obviously just snagged a bit and in reality was doing not much at all.

So, two different types of anchor on what looked like a weedy bottom, one worked, the other didn't. Trouble was it gave us a hell of a problem for a few moments when leaving because we had to work out how to retrieve a substantial amount of rope on the second while letting the first drag, all without a tangle, all of this quite close (within long line distance) to a shore.

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Re: Tandem anchors

bruce/m/claw works quite well at this as you can shackle a short length of chain and second anchor to the hole in the bottom of the stock of the main (provided for a tripping line).
Getting them laid out so that they both bite at the same time always seems like guess work though - however carefully you do it! Never watched it reset in a tide change though -

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