Not smart enough to buy a Rocna?
My oh my!
Or a Sarca I said. I'm happy to admit there is more than just one ideal anchor out there.
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Not smart enough to buy a Rocna?
My oh my!
Greetings,
Wait, what? "...ideal anchor...". I thought Ideal was a windlass.....
You do have a choice. SARCA supplied a slot bolt with my SS. Unbelievers can eliminate shackle travel in the slot. I removed it, no premature pull out, so far.Of course one has no choice with a Sarca but it's easy enough to torque a nut, bolt, and lock washers down in the slot to ensure that the shackle can't slide. If we lost our first-generation Rocna for some reason we'd be inclined to order a Sarca. But we would either ask the manufacturer, or have it done here, to weld the slot closed at the attach end so we had just a hole to attach the rode to. We believe in reducing the risk of anchoring problems to the absolute minimum, and the slot is an unnecessary risk in our view.
You do have a choice. SARCA supplied a slot bolt with my SS. Unbelievers can eliminate shackle travel in the slot. I removed it, no premature pull out, so far.
You do have a choice. SARCA supplied a slot bolt with my SS. Unbelievers can eliminate shackle travel in the slot. I removed it, no premature pull out, so far.
....Manson did a smart thing by putting a shacke hole in their anchor shank along with the slot. Every Manson Supreme I've seen-- which has only been a few; they are apparently not very popular in this area-- has been shacked to the hole, not the slot...
We pulled into Great Habour Cay to wait out some weather. …. I counted 11 roll bar/type anchors of which there were 6 Rocnas, 4 Manson Supremes and a European roll bar type I am not familiar with plus one of the new roll bar less high tech SS anchors.
Of the Mason Supremes, only 1 of the 4 used the slot.
.....he fact that two very knowledgeable and experienced anchor manufacturers supply anchors with the slot.
Marin wrote;
"The very fact that Sarca supplies a bolt to prevent the shackle from sliding down the slot is very, very telling to me. It means that no matter what the hype, they know this is a possibility so they are covering their butt by giving the buyer the bolt"
Absolute bull roar Marin. They obviously know there's unbelivers like yourself and giving them the option of blocking the slot so they'll buy the anchor speaks to the bottom
Peter--- There are more ways to back out a fouled anchor than a trip line or a slot. We carry a couple of them on our boat in addition to the trip line, which in our experience anyway, is a snap to deploy and retrieve.
Did you hear the one about the 3 anchors that walked into a bar.....
I'd bet their names were "Hook","Line",and Sinker"
Al