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Old 04-22-2015, 06:46 PM   #50
Marin
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Eric--- You are never going to convince me that an eleven pound difference in anchor weigh is going to mean anything when conditions get nasty. Eleven pounds isn't squat.

Twenty pound, thirty pounds, more, sure. At least for a Bruce/claw. But eleven? That's armchair theorizing again.

And as I've said many times, we know people with same kind of boat we have but with 44 pound Bruces, and guess what? They are every bit as unreliable for them as ours was when they're actually put to the test.

I'm not interested in armchair theories about how an anchor design is supposed to work. I'm only interested in how it atually works under real conditions in real bottoms holding real boats. And in the smaller sizes, the vast majority of what I've been told by users and have read says the Bruce/claw has unrealiable holding. 33 pounds, 44 pounds, 15 pounds, makes no difference. They've been sufficiently proven to be poor holding anchors many times over.

That's the only thing I'm interested in.
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