Anchor size?

[IanD]

10 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

I guess we will.

 

My experience of Danforth anchors is that they are overall very poor, if you can get it to set then its holding is good, but it can roll out far too readily, and, this is reinforced by a large number of tests by boaty magazines and test houses that invariably put the Danforth near the bottom of their test results.

 

I'll leave it at that.

Alan, you really need to stop thinking that your needs and experience apply equally to everybody else...

 

All this is indeed really important for a yottie who uses their anchor every day, and for whom a good modern one vs. a Danforth is likely to make the difference sooner or later between a safe mooring and damage/loss of boat or life.

 

In comparison, maybe 99% of narrowboaters will never use an anchor to moor on a river in their entire boating lifetime, and maybe 99.99% will never need to deploy it in the kind of emergency you keep describing.

 

For these boaters, suggesting that they should buy a costly state-of-the-art marine anchor with extra-long heavy chain/rope and 10-ton rated fittings and practice deploying it once a year (or they're being negligent idiots) is inappropriate, as is scaring people with stories about boats going over weirs. For them a Danforth is the appropriate solution, which is why so many are out there -- they're not Rolls-Royces or Ferraris but for most people a second-hand Ford is fine...

Edited May 11, 2021 by IanD

[blackrose]

I agree with everything everyone's said on this thread. I'm easily influenced.