T&T: Anchor Size Recommendations

[Frank Osborne]

 >We (and some other boaters we boat with) have had very poor
experiences with the Bruce, and there's no question about its being
consistently rated n tests as among the worst anchor configurations in
terms of holding power<


I feel that someone needs to come to the defense of the Bruce anchor. We 
had a
66# Bruce on our 44 Defever and now have a 110# Bruce on our 46 Nordhavn 
and in
10K NM from SE Alaska to the Sea of Cortes they both served us well. That's
not to say that the Rocna's are not good or perhaps better but to say 
that the
Bruce is a poor anchor is not correct. The problem most casual boaters 
commit
is getting too small of an anchor and then complaining that it doesn't 
do it's job.
In a cruisers seminar last month in La Paz a speaker said that your 
anchor should
be 2 lbs per foot of boat length plus 10%. And he was talking about 
sailboats.
New technologies may reduce that but I still believe that you can't beat 
weight.
Look at the commercial fishing boats, they carry much larger anchors per 
boat
size than most yachts do. I think the Dashew's said that when people on 
the dock
start laughing at your anchor size than your getting close.

-- 
Frank Osborne
Discovery N46-37
Home Port: Anacortes, WA
Blog:http://mvdiscovery.blogspot.com/