Which Anchor

[About Time]

Hi,

I wonder if one can guide me to which anchor I shall buy. I am going to Sweden (along the west coast north of Gothenburg) for the summer and I want to overnight outside of ports. I have one mounted anchor in the front but want to bring on a second one for the stern... Then find a clam spot and dump both anchors. Looking at anchors there seem to be a lot of different shapes .... Which one to choose for my job. The boat is a 37 Motorboat with twin sterndrives ... weight of 8,000 Kgs incl. passengers. Thanks.

 

[BruceK]

I'm not brave enough to volunteer an opinion. What would help someone who is would be for you to tell us what kind of seabed substrate you aim to anchor in.

 

[About Time]

good point.... I have never been there before but I guess there is plenty of rocks.

 

[BruceK]

Then I would be looking at anchors that have a high point load (grapnel and plough types) and smaller fluke area and use a trip buoy. Claw, CQR, Delta, Rocna and Supreme. Note with the claw / Bruce the bigger the better and minimum 20kg. Their holding power drops off exponentially with size/weight as they dont scale down well. (or so the literature would indicate)

 

[About Time]

Great. Thanks for the input.