Upgrade to Sealine Anchor

[craigsmith]

But the problem posed in the thread was that a heavier anchor was needed to conform to a regulation. The problem was the regulation not poor anchoring.

An ingenious solution was found. This was dismissed and no practical alternative posed.

edit - actually i take that back the original problem WAS poor anchoring. I still like the lead for solving the coding problem though.

It's not ingenious, it's about comparable with fibbing to the insurance company about the hot mods on your car. You are missing the 2nd of my points.

The first is that you are severely modifying the anchor outside of design spec. Adding weight to the heel of the Delta and any remotely similar anchor is a silly thing. It will greatly reduce its ability to do what it's designed to do.

That notwithstanding, there is the issue of the coding. The MCA codes all require certain size anchors based on the vessel's size. It is stated that these anchors are to be HHP classified; alternatively, a "standard" (fisherman's) type must be 75% larger.

The Delta is an HHP anchor, classified so by Lloyd's. This classified design is also type approved. When you change the anchor, especially as drastically as you are, it most certainly is no longer the same type approved design. You don't have a Delta 40 kg, you have a Delta 32 kg which weighs 40 kg. The HHP classification goes out the window too - your anchor was never classified. Lloyd's would not be likely to accept your modified anchor as the same type, and even if they did (hypothetically), it's still the 32 kg model.

Cheating the system might work initially, and it might all look okay on paper, but.

 

[Observer]

IAdding weight to the heel of the Delta and any remotely similar anchor is a silly thing. It will greatly reduce its ability to do what it's designed to do.

Umm - I think what you mean to say is that adding weight to an existing design is liable to change what it will do outside the design expectation. Whether that's for better or worse is (I suspect) unknown by you. It is also (probably) unknown by splosh; that being your real point, I think?