Sod anchors

[Cerebus]

Shapes, sizes, designs, metal type, weight…

I knew a man who chucked over a bag of old tools.

True.

Then there are the stone ones.

But obviously as a sailor I am interested … but not in a discussion- I post this as a late night, tipsy joke.

Obviously after reading so much I know the best anchor is light alloy and designed perfectly and self righting and even pulls into the bow roller with no human effort or finger loss.

I always carry 3 anchors of different makes; I won’t say which ones.

Not opening a discussion; just joking about the man and his bag of tools as an anchor- he managed.

 

[William_H]

I think anchors (almost any style) are incredibly clever at being able to convert the action of being dragged along the bottom into a motion to dig itself into the bottom and so resist the drag. I admire the fisherman's style very old fashioned but still the best in weed. Danforth style good for sand. etc etc... All that and can be easily released when you want to go. ol'will

 

[ducked]

Wouldn't a sod anchor be more a dry land, farming/engineering stylee thing, maybe used in conjunction with sheer legs and a Tirfor jack?

Or perhaps you meant "sad anchors", intending disparagement of divisive Anchorite Jihadist disputes?

Re your toolbag case study, if any of the tools in his bag of tools were anchors, and they were tied on, that'd probably work quite well.

I understand a railway wheel works very well in mud.

There's a locally made-from-rebar (I think) pattern that I see around the oyster farms in the Taiwan Straight, that I quite like the look of. Must remember to get some pictures before I go.

Otherwise I'll just be using whatever came with the boat, which I think was a CQR