T&T: Anchor loyalty

[C. Marin Faure]

 >This is a discussion to which there is no right answer.

Very true.  However, when you start to narrow the parameters, there  
are fewer right answers.  When it comes to holding power, the Bruce's  
design lets it down.  Scaling a huge oil rig anchor down to a very  
small size does not automatically mean the small version will possess  
all the same characteristics of the huge one.  Which is why the Bruce  
is consistently at or near the bottom in holding power in every  
anchor test I've ever seen.

Where high holding power is not a major concern, the Bruce's other  
attributes can put it above other types of anchors.   We were big  
proponents of the Bruce until it's lack of holding power let us down  
on several occasions.  At that point, we decided that holding power  
was a bigger factor in what we needed in an anchor than we had  
originally supposed.  So we began to search for an anchor that was  
very high in holding power but also possessed similar quick setting  
and re-setting properties to our Bruce.  We found it, and the Bruce  
is now propping a door open in our garage, a task for which I can  
attest with no reservations or conditions it is absolutely superb :-)


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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington