OK, after a summer using the SARCA EXCEL I am very happy with it.
The Excel is a 80 lb anchor with an all chain rode, where the old anchor was a 66 lb genuine Bruce with 100' of chain and a nylon rode after that.
I know comparisons between the two are unfair because of the weight and rode differences, so I cannot knock the Bruce one little bit.
What I have noticed, having set the anchor somewhere between 40 and 60 times is that it has never failed to set.
The holding power is substantial, I think far more than the bruce, but my only real test was during one big blow I was in, and the boat stayed put.
Something I did notice is in the mornings I see the track of where we were the night before as a track on the plotter. The lines of the track are markedly closer together with the new anchor.
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