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Originally Posted by manyboats
Chris how would you classify all the common anchors?
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Ummm....
Convex Plow (or plough)
Convex Plow with rollbar
Concave Scoop
Convex scoop with rollbar
Back-hoe
Pivoting with stock
Stockless pivoting
????
Something like that?
I don't always remember which anchor goes in which category, though.
I remember once reading one of Rex's vehement dissertations about the differences between a plough and one of his SARCA anchors. And then visually comparing pictures of his and a Delta... and not really seeing the difference.
Happened to be looking at the Mantus website today (after the question about built in U.S.) and found their sizing tool suggests a 65-lb anchor for our boat, 1640 square centimeters of fluke. Our back-hoe (about 50-lbs) is about 1850 square centimeters of fluke. I don't se a quick way to look up fluke size of a Fortress, but our FX-37 (21-lbs) probably would be starting to get on the large size.
Perhaps fluke size may be at least as useful a classification as shape... or maybe a ratio of fluke size to weight or some such... although fluke size and overall weight and obviously moving targets as anchors get larger...
-Chris