Debating which anchor is the prettiest ("Beautiful lines," Eric???) strikes me as sort of like arguing over which dinosaur had the best-smelling poop. There might be a winner but it would be the best of a bad lot.
From a design point of view, every anchor looks like (s)crap to me. Functional, sure. But pretty? That's quite a stretch. Boats would look a lot nicer without that ugly, angular piece of rubbish hanging off the front.
This is a bad reproduction of just about my all-time favorite maritime photo. Taken by Alfred Beken in 1935, the boat is Tommy Sopwith's J-Class America's Cup challenger Endeavour. Imagine how crappy it would have looked to have a jagged piece of bent steel hanging off the bow.
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