T&T: Anchor Size Recommendations

[Nosy 34]

FWIW, we just had a 20-day charter out in fairly windy weather, as a  
result of which, we've decided to demote the CQR to backup and get a  
Rocna.

This decision was made BEFORE I read all the recent posts.

Our boat is 58' by 15', 50 tons gross, steel, full displacement. It  
dragged the CQR practically every other day of the charter. To be  
fair, a 40-lb CQR was probably undersized to begin with for our size  
of boat. But our first anchor was a 100-lb Navy, and it used to drag  
that too, sometimes.

Applying the "2 lb per ft of boat +10%" rule would give us a 130-lb  
anchor. What a nightmare it would be to try and retrieve that  
manually. In foul weather. Trying a 55-lb Rocna on our boat should be  
an interesting test of whether the design has really moved technology  
forward.

Rafael
M/Y Isla
Subic Bay, Philippines