My first choice is always a single anchor. Usually there is plenty of swing room where I go and where I have been. I am all chain so I can shorten up if necessary but my preference is still to be close to 10:1.
Advantage is you swing like everyone else whose on a single (usually 98%), and no worries about tangling twisting the two lines when you change directions.
On some occasions I have used two from the bow, but only in very windy conditions with poor holding ground. When I do this they are spread at around 30-45 degree angle (sorry no protractor to get exactly LOL).
Then after the wind settles or when it's time to leave I break one out with the dinghy and untwist off the bow (my secondary that is line and chain).
A couple of times I have used a stern anchor when sterning to a beach, etc., but that's extremely rare for me. Below I am stern to in Canada because most other boats were.
Bottom pic is single anchor in Block Island's salt pond
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Jay Leonard
Ex boats: 1983 40 Albin trunk cabin, 1978 Mainship 34 Model 1
New Port Richey, Fl
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