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Old 11-26-2014, 08:22 PM   #30
Marin
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Originally Posted by Delfin View Post
I remain convinced that Bruce designs are quick setting anchors whose holding power goes up dramatically as the weight increases..
I don't dispute that at all. As I said earlier, you can scale an anchor design up and down but you can't scale the bottom up and down. So the bigger and heavier the better in terms of holding power.

We were always impressed at how quickly our Bruce set in the variety of bottoms we encounter. That was never the problem.

Unfortunately, little boats like ours cannot carry a 100-plus pound anchor.

So the obvious solution to us was to go in search of an anchor design that holds reliably under load in a size that will fit on the boat and at a weight that is manageable.
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