Outfitting new build GHTT35. Does anyone have direct experience with Mantus anchor? Online reviews have been very favorable, but I'd be interested in hearing from someone with firsthand experience.
Thanks
They are a bit odd looking though.
Sent you a PM rather than starting AFAT (another frigging anchor thread)
Why not keep it in the forum where everyone can discuss? Those who don't want to be bothered with AFAT, don't have to participate.
I have a Rocna. The Mantus looks, well, cheap with the bolt assembly....
Sea-Duction,
Whaddya try'in to do deep six what dosn't appeal to you?
There's other threads that may.
I would imagine the bolt together anchor would require more attention to clearances and perhaps machining that would make it more expensive and not cheap. Just picking pup a stinger and zapping a weld on it is much easier and cheaper.
The Mantus looks, well, cheap with the bolt assembly....
Serious? Me? You’ve gotta be joking.
Oh I forgot that’s what you do.
It was funny the first 50 times but that post has probably been done 500 times.
Upgrade your humor.
I’m pick’in on you but there are many others I could’a picked on .. Sorry.
Not sure about the criminality Eric, but yes, an unexpected unexplained tabling. In the Steve/SV Panope tests I don`t think Fortress performed so well or Rocna so poorly. His were tests with no bias, and with photographic evidence of each aspect of performance of each anchor. The failure of some to reset properly, promptly, or at all, was disturbing for those anchoring overnight expecting wind or tide reversals leading to a likely reset while asleep.S and Z,
It’s sorta criminal to post that w/o any information about who performed the test or where and when it happened. With a strange stack up of performance numbers some explanation would seem necessary. Lots of people still think the Rocna is the best anchor in the world and your test lists it as the lowest performer. Most will think your posted test is invalid on that score alone. For openers what kind of bottom was the test staged on/in?
Lou that must be to a degree,you fare better with chain than just line. A catenary weight, or an Anchor Buddy, can help. But I think it`s just part of a total mosaic, right scope, setting technique, some good fortune,and a good holding bottom.Maybe there is even an element of " the black arts" in anchoring. I would not exclude the anchor itself,Steve`s tests showed some scary differences in performance, but it`s far from being the whole story, despite being easy to focus on.One of my good friend who is an very experienced mariner ( and when I say very I mean really very experienced ) told me one day that the anchor does not matter so much but what is important is the size, length and weight of the chain you put down there. Any comment on this?