T&T: Anchor clone

[Bob McLeran]

Jim, if you're going to spend much time in the Neuse, Alligator and 
Chesapeake Bay, I'd look at the SuperMax - it will hold in deep mud 
where nothing else will. You'll never get a plow of any kind to hold and 
dig in mud (or any other bottom material for that matter) like the SuperMax.

The guy who turned the list on to the SuperMax was Capn Wil Andrews, who 
ran a series of tests on the SuperMax in your area. He concluded (this 
was back in the late 90s) that no other anchor was better.

So you can add a bigger plow type, or a Danforth, but you really won't 
get much better holding other than that provided by the shear weight of 
it all.

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On 4/20/2009 9:46 AM, JHWardJr at aol.com wrote:
> I have a 42' Present that has huge windage.  I 'enjoyed' dragging the  
> other night in a calm but wind swept anchorage with my as purchased 35# Delta  
> setup (the PO had a spare the same size, which I already sold).  It  was a 
> mud/sand bottom, it was set well, and I used 7:1 chain, but my boat is  just 
> too big for this anchor in Neuse River mud for real sleep.  This  is not the 
> first time this happened.
>  
> I know plows are not the best in mud, but they sure fit well in my  pulpit. 
>  I also have a 35# Danforth High Tensile that seems to do a good  job in 
> mud, but it is set up on rope which with my windlass setup would not  be a one 
> man remote control process (very nice feature that the PO  created).  This 
> anchor is not a natural for my arrangement as the primary  anchor, but I am 
> going to play with it some more.