The history of the anchor..... oh yes indeed

[dylanwinter]

http://cruising.coastalboating.net/Seamanship/Anchoring/History.html

for those who like to get their rocks off on such things

I for one did not know what CQR stood for

 

[Hadenough]

You have an overheating problem with the Centaur and you are researching stone anchors?

 

[prv]

How about the history of marine toilets?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Those-Vulgar-Tubes-Accommodations-Accomodations-ebook/dp/B009K280JW

Or bilge pumps through the ages?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ships-Bilge...UTF8&qid=1395178957&sr=1-2&keywords=Ship+pump

Pete

 

[dylanwinter]

How about the history of marine toilets?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Those-Vulgar-Tubes-Accommodations-Accomodations-ebook/dp/B009K280JW

Or bilge pumps through the ages?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ships-Bilge...UTF8&qid=1395178957&sr=1-2&keywords=Ship+pump

Pete

well found Pete

a whole book on marine bogs

 

[LittleSister]

You have an overheating problem with the Centaur and you are researching stone anchors?

Overheating? In Scotland? Pull the other one!

 

[vyv_cox]

Not sure where they dreamed up the Coastal Quick Release story. The true version of the name is well known.

U.K. physicist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor invented the plow anchor. In 1933 Taylor and two friends set up The Security Patent Anchor Company. Taylor tried to put the word "secure' on the anchor however he wasn't allowed to register this common word, and so he came up with a compromise and called the anchor CQR instead. Taylor's U. S. Patent 1,974,933 awarded in 1934. Patent drawing below.
http://anchors.synthasite.com/cqr-anchor.php

His paper, published in Yachting Monthly in 1934, may well describe the first ever anchor test and is surprisingly like many of the hundreds that have been performed since. http://anchors.synthasite.com/resources/taylor-holdingpowerofanchors.pdf