Sorry Rocna again .

[clyst]

Being a concerned Rocna owner and to save me trawling through old posts can anyone please explain how I can find out whether I have a "genuine" rocna and whether its of the original design material spec .

Cheers

 

[Tradewinds]

I think if you PM GrantKing with the purchase details he will tell you whether you've got a good one or not.

 

[clyst]

I think if you PM GrantKing with the purchase details he will tell you whether you've got a good one or not.

Thanks . he is ??

 

[snooks]

He was the production manager, and has the production schedules for the anchors produced in china, from which he can tell you the material your anchor is most likely made of.

 

[Tradewinds]

"no longer associated with "those" Anchors"

Are you winding me up

Ex Rocna man with all the info.

 

[clyst]

He was the production manager, and has the production schedules for the anchors produced in china, from which he can tell you the material your anchor is most likely made of.

Cheers snooks but I have no other information to give him other than its a rocna and a very rough date of purchase .

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Cheers snooks but I have no other information to give him other than its a rocna and a very rough date of purchase .

He'll want to know where you bought it. Just the country will do if you can't remember anymore than that.

 

[blenkinsop]

Grant King contact email?

Same query and how do we contact Grant King? We bought our 20kg galvanised Rocna in Sydney in February in 2010.

 

[snooks]

Same query and how do we contact Grant King? We bought our 20kg galvanised Rocna in Sydney in February in 2010.

Just a PM (private message) will do....Grantking

Or post on the end of the long Rocna thread would probably be better, as it will help anyone else who bought their anchor from the same country around the same time.

 

[vyv_cox]

You can carry out a simple hardness test. See Post #306 in the other Rocna thread. The hardness of the softest of the shank steels will be similar to that of the fluke. My Bisplate shank remained unmarked, other than very slight flattening of the galvanising.

 

[Bosun Higgs]

Being a concerned Rocna owner and to save me trawling through old posts can anyone please explain how I can find out whether I have a "genuine" rocna and whether its of the original design material spec .

Cheers

If your anchor has "Rocna" cast in on the flukes it will have been made in China and therefore not have the original Bisplate 80 low alloy steel spec used when made in N Z but a slightly lower strength one chosen by Rocna. Of those made in China a small batch were made of the wrong specification but I'm told this has been corrected. The rest are made to the current Rocna spec which Rocna insist is perfectly functional and still meets the high holding power standard if any anchor below 50 kg can do that.

Rocna or their employees made enemies amongst their competitors when things were going well and are reaping the whirlwind in the feeding frenzy they are now suffering. Leaving aside the legalities of the issue, the practical realities are that the holding of the anchor is still good and the shanks resistance to bending will be better than most alternative anchors made of mild steel. IMO of course.

Would I buy another one knowing what I now know? No - I would buy a Manson which is made of the higher spec steel and is cheaper. Am I worried about the Rocna I now have - no.