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Old 02-26-2014, 05:39 PM   #51
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BruceK,
SS shackles are for yachties. Galvanized are best for electrolysis concerns unless you have SS anchor chain and anchor. And Gal is stronger I'm quite sure.

Really .... so Rex gives those that don't trust his design a bolt. I'd trust the SARCA in my sleep.

But re the slot and recovery I think the trip line is better "positioned" to pull the anchor out. On many or most anchors the shackle hole for the trip line puts the line in a better position to extract the anchor backwards. Ideally the trip line attach point should be basically as low and far aft as practical. The Rocna's set up fairly well for this. But I could be wrong. Maybe the attach point should be higher and further fwd????
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