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I have had similar experience as Steve on Maerin. Our bow has two separate windlass, each supporting a different anchor. Ten years ago, we had a CQR and a Fortress aluminum Danforth style anchor. We gave the CQR away - it did not like setting and usually took several tries. The Fortress worked well in the Chesapeake but we were not impressed with it in harder bottoms. So we installed a Rocna and have used it from Florida to Canada with happy results.
As far as using two anchors - we have not used two off the bow at the same time. When we had a windlass fail behind Sandy Hook NJ, we jumped the chain to the "other" windlass and retrieved the Rocna.
We have dropped a stern anchor a few times. We learned we did not want to do that, because we do not have a windlass in the stern and muscling up a well set Danforth anchor is very difficult to do. The last time, I dropped our dinghy anchor (only 8 lbs) to slow our swinging.
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