Rocna with a back up Bruce. 25 feet pop chain with 225 feet of rode. In 9 years I've never had to put the Bruce in the water. The Rocna has held solid everywhere I have used it from Desolation Sound in the north to Lake Union and Lake Washington in the south. So many different bottoms. Such great holding in all conditions. Very happy with the Rocna.
Other than hull & skipper, anchor and rode's most important piece of equip... . Bad anchor/rode equals bad sleep or grounding or hitting who knows what, in the middle of a dark windy night & no fun will be had at all :).
We sail in sandy bottom lakes and the Florida/Alabama Gulf Coast. With five feet of chain, the navy anchor has never let me down. It's also much smaller than other anchors of the same holding power.
Actually it's sixty-seven foot of rode and fourteen foot of (?3/8") chain with a two kilogram (4.4 lb.) Bruce on the end for an eleven foot six inch lugger, displacing some two hundred and eighty-five pounds.
Why that? Well almost everything I have has been previously loved - probably also by me, among others; I am the most appalling hoarder, particularly of maritime gubbins and wood.
I remember my Dear Old Dad admitting that he went into his hoard and found the perfect piece of timber for a job, then caught himself putting it back incase he should need it for something - that's me all over. There is so much waste in this world, the garage is absolutely up to the gunwales in junk; it drives me buggy having to buy three metres (9'10") of tubing, just because I desperately need six and a quarter inches of it.
Etcetera
Anyway; I take my primary anchoring equipment, whenever I overnight, or venture outside the harbour and it hasn't failed yet. Daysailing inside the harbour, I have a 'lunch-pick'; a quasi-tolerable folding grapnel, which I wouldn't trust without being in the vicinity.
Chichester is a natural inlet with oodles of nooks and crannies; gunk-holing, my favourite -
The tide swims languid side-stroke in and out of 'my' harbour, poppling over the toes of the foraging waders and carefully carving sun-soaked ripples on little sand-spits in the diaphanous shallows, for you to find when it leaves
For our Houdinin, we use a 15lb navy anchor as primary with a small Bruce style as secondary/stern anchor. Primary anchor has 15 ft of chain. The combination works well for the sand/mud bottoms we encounter on the west coast of Florida
Small boats have trouble frequently with stowage. With no locker, I have one on a roller at each end of the boat. I almost always anchor in shallow water but still have over 100ft including
I’ve had a Mantus 17lb. MK l 10 years now and it is amazing. I have a 1 1/2 ton Santana 2023c and it has held solid in 3 unscheduled blows with 25’ of chain, able to reset all night.
I would be fine with its equivalent Ultra, Rocna et al.
I also carry a good size Fortress for beaching and racing.
I've used a Bruce anchor while cruising for many years and will continue when I finally get my trailer sailor. As for length of anchor rode that's hard to answer because of not knowing the size of boat and depth of the anchorage. I will carry at least 100 ft with a short length of chain.
Another question might be how much chain one uses. Might be as important as the "hook".
A Rocna and a Fortress. I sleep well on the hook.
Sarca Excel #3 and Danfoth (style). Both with chain/rode combination. Two is one and one is none.
Rocna with a back up Bruce. 25 feet pop chain with 225 feet of rode. In 9 years I've never had to put the Bruce in the water. The Rocna has held solid everywhere I have used it from Desolation Sound in the north to Lake Union and Lake Washington in the south. So many different bottoms. Such great holding in all conditions. Very happy with the Rocna.
I carry 125 feet of chain, and 150 feet of rode.
Other than hull & skipper, anchor and rode's most important piece of equip... . Bad anchor/rode equals bad sleep or grounding or hitting who knows what, in the middle of a dark windy night & no fun will be had at all :).
We sail in sandy bottom lakes and the Florida/Alabama Gulf Coast. With five feet of chain, the navy anchor has never let me down. It's also much smaller than other anchors of the same holding power.
Actually it's sixty-seven foot of rode and fourteen foot of (?3/8") chain with a two kilogram (4.4 lb.) Bruce on the end for an eleven foot six inch lugger, displacing some two hundred and eighty-five pounds.
Why that? Well almost everything I have has been previously loved - probably also by me, among others; I am the most appalling hoarder, particularly of maritime gubbins and wood.
I remember my Dear Old Dad admitting that he went into his hoard and found the perfect piece of timber for a job, then caught himself putting it back incase he should need it for something - that's me all over. There is so much waste in this world, the garage is absolutely up to the gunwales in junk; it drives me buggy having to buy three metres (9'10") of tubing, just because I desperately need six and a quarter inches of it.
Etcetera
Anyway; I take my primary anchoring equipment, whenever I overnight, or venture outside the harbour and it hasn't failed yet. Daysailing inside the harbour, I have a 'lunch-pick'; a quasi-tolerable folding grapnel, which I wouldn't trust without being in the vicinity.
Chichester is a natural inlet with oodles of nooks and crannies; gunk-holing, my favourite -
The tide swims languid side-stroke in and out of 'my' harbour, poppling over the toes of the foraging waders and carefully carving sun-soaked ripples on little sand-spits in the diaphanous shallows, for you to find when it leaves
For our Houdinin, we use a 15lb navy anchor as primary with a small Bruce style as secondary/stern anchor. Primary anchor has 15 ft of chain. The combination works well for the sand/mud bottoms we encounter on the west coast of Florida
1) Beach stake w/ 100' rode
2) 4.4 lb Lewmar Claw w/ 100' rode & 10'chain
3) 8 lb Danforth w/ 100' rode & 10' chain
4) 10 lb folding rock anchor w/100' rode & 10' chain
5) Drift anchor (attaches to rode from beach stake)
I'd like to add a 10 lb mushroom anchor, but a 12 foot SCAMP only holds so many anchors!!
Hey! I LIKE waking up, where I went to sleep!
For my Scamp: a small Mantus (with 100’ rode) and a mushroom anchor w/ bungee line. Both fit just nicely in my foot locker.
Anchoring depth and tidal ranges factor into choosing rode length. Would also have been interesting to ask where folks typically sail.
Small boats have trouble frequently with stowage. With no locker, I have one on a roller at each end of the boat. I almost always anchor in shallow water but still have over 100ft including
I’ve had a Mantus 17lb. MK l 10 years now and it is amazing. I have a 1 1/2 ton Santana 2023c and it has held solid in 3 unscheduled blows with 25’ of chain, able to reset all night.
I would be fine with its equivalent Ultra, Rocna et al.
I also carry a good size Fortress for beaching and racing.
I've used a Bruce anchor while cruising for many years and will continue when I finally get my trailer sailor. As for length of anchor rode that's hard to answer because of not knowing the size of boat and depth of the anchorage. I will carry at least 100 ft with a short length of chain.
Anchors are better than insurance and cheaper over time.