T&T: Anchors- Anchoring

[C. Marin Faure]

 >With all this talk of anchor testing, has anyone seen a test report  
on a
Forfjord

This anchor came up in a discussion on the new Trawler Forum and  
nobody there knew much about it either.  So out of curiosity I  
searched for as many independent anchor tests as I could find in a  
reasonable amount of time to see if the Forfjord had been included in  
any of them.  It was not in any of the tests I looked at.

It appears to be basically the same idea as the been-around-forever  
Navy anchor.  The Navy anchor is popular on commercial fishing boats  
around here, but when we were searching for a different type of  
anchor than what we had and I asked a couple of guys with big purse  
seiners in our marina why they had Navy anchors, they said "because  
they're the easiest anchor to stow."  When I asked them how well it  
set and how well it held compared to other anchors they said they had  
no idea.

Friends we boat with a lot had a Navy anchor on their 36' lobsterboat  
when we met them, but they some bad experiences with it so they  
switched to a different type of anchor.

This isn't to say that the Forfjord has the same characteristics as  
the Navy anchor---- I've not seen any reviews or tests to confirm or  
deny this--- but it looks like it might.


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