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Greetings all,
I thought our experince with a Rocna may be of interest to someone. We have a Bavaria 42 and have been living on it in the Adriatic for the last 3 and a half months. Started in Slovenia, then sailed Croatia and are now in Montenegro, soon to head to Greece.
We have anchored on 80 to 90% of nights in a lot of different anchorages and conditions.
We have a 25kg Rocna anchor on 50 metres of 10mm chain.
All up, it has dragged twice. First time was in the harbour of Komiza on the Isle of Vis, Croatia in what we later discovered was a notoriously bad anchorage (although the pilot books don't refer to it as such). Only about 25-30 knots of wind but bottom is thick weed and very poor holding. About 40 boats anchored, virtually all dragged and we would have been one of the last to drag.
Second dragging incident was also on Vis, in Vis harbour. A much better anchorage but we were hit with an intense short squall of 45 to 50 knots. We dragged but it reset itself about 50 metres away.
Since this, we have been giving the boat more revs in reverse when setting the anchor. We used to just idle back onto the anchor and taut chain and sit there for a while idling in reverse to set it. Now we give it 1000 or 1500rpm in reverse. If we are not sitting stationary we pull it up and try again. Sometimes we need to try a couple of times before we are sure it is holding at 1500 rpm - particulary in weed.
We can't really meaingfully benchmark the Rocna as we don't have lengthy experience of using other anchor types.
I bought the Rocna after reading the anchor test in Yachting World that was published late last year or early this year.
It has held without problems on numerous 25 to 30 knot nights.
We do have a swivel on ours although the manufacturer doesn't fully recommend this.
Hope this info may be of use to someone.
Regards,
Ross.
I thought our experince with a Rocna may be of interest to someone. We have a Bavaria 42 and have been living on it in the Adriatic for the last 3 and a half months. Started in Slovenia, then sailed Croatia and are now in Montenegro, soon to head to Greece.
We have anchored on 80 to 90% of nights in a lot of different anchorages and conditions.
We have a 25kg Rocna anchor on 50 metres of 10mm chain.
All up, it has dragged twice. First time was in the harbour of Komiza on the Isle of Vis, Croatia in what we later discovered was a notoriously bad anchorage (although the pilot books don't refer to it as such). Only about 25-30 knots of wind but bottom is thick weed and very poor holding. About 40 boats anchored, virtually all dragged and we would have been one of the last to drag.
Second dragging incident was also on Vis, in Vis harbour. A much better anchorage but we were hit with an intense short squall of 45 to 50 knots. We dragged but it reset itself about 50 metres away.
Since this, we have been giving the boat more revs in reverse when setting the anchor. We used to just idle back onto the anchor and taut chain and sit there for a while idling in reverse to set it. Now we give it 1000 or 1500rpm in reverse. If we are not sitting stationary we pull it up and try again. Sometimes we need to try a couple of times before we are sure it is holding at 1500 rpm - particulary in weed.
We can't really meaingfully benchmark the Rocna as we don't have lengthy experience of using other anchor types.
I bought the Rocna after reading the anchor test in Yachting World that was published late last year or early this year.
It has held without problems on numerous 25 to 30 knot nights.
We do have a swivel on ours although the manufacturer doesn't fully recommend this.
Hope this info may be of use to someone.
Regards,
Ross.
