eddystone
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Thank you for your constructive suggestion
What to do with old anchor?
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James_Calvert
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Or you could keep it in your anchor locker (that's where mine is - a 35lb Sowester plough).
charles_reed
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Ghastly anchor - for the first 10 years I had the boat, I wondered why it dragged so frequently. The shank then broke during a hooly in Mallorca and I replaced the cast Plough copy with a genuine CQR (going cheap as the gullible were all going for New Age anchors). Since then (with a little bit of applied mechanics) I can guarantee to anchor with no chance of a drag 98.5% of the time (I anchor about 200 times a year).
Relieve your boat of the weight in its bow and use the So'wester plough as a garage door-stop - it will excel at that.
alan_d
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Well, I thought Mudisox's reply was quite funny. Is it possible you are not familiar with the phrase "swallow the anchor"?
According to the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea it is "a maritime term to indicate giving up, or retiring from, a life at sea and settling down to live ashore."
