T&T: Anchors: better a hoe than a plow

[dd0267@gregsteckel.com]

Ditto on the Super Max for the Chesapeake - it has performed flawlessly 
since we put it on.  Held us firm in a couple T storms that blew through the 
bay on Memorial day weekend while other boats in the anchorage were 
dragging.....


Greg Steckel
M/V Different Drummer
President 35 Sundeck
Frog Mortar Creek, MD
www.chesapeakebayboater.com
www.fmyc.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R C Smith Jr" <rcsmith@garrett-smith.com>
To: "T&T T&T" <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: T&T: Anchors: better a hoe than a plow


> The Rocna is another example of the newer hoe-shaped anchor and seems
> decidedly more effective than the traditional plow-shaped anchor...sounds
> logical too, doesn9t it? For the last couple of years, I have been using 
> an
> 88 lb Super Max.
>
> http://www.creativemarine.com/catalog/text/anchor.html
>
> It is more hoe than the Rocna, which suggests better mud performance, but
> lacks the pointy end, which suggests difficulty in grass. In the muddy
> Chesapeake, nothing beats it. In the grass of the Bahamas, it would not
> bury, rather it just laid on its side and, well, just held. Looked
> ineffective as you snorkeled over it, but hold it did.
>
> The Super Max is half the cost of the Rocna and is made in Mississippi. 
> Just
> a happy customer...
>
> Bob
> ________________
> Robert Calhoun Smith Jr
> M/V MARY KATHRYN
> Hatteras 58 LRC
> South River
> Annapolis, MD, USA