It's very well made, but it's too light. The measure of quality in an
anchor is
how well it holds the boat. Fortresses, *IF* they can get a bite, will hold
very well. The problem is they are so light that they skip over the surface of
all but very soft mud. By your own admission, you have never trusted it to hold
your boat overnight in a strange harbor. You only use it to anchor occasionally
in one general spot, when serving as a committee boat for a few hours, while
you
are awake and watching. The cheapest piece of crap anchor in the world would do
as well for that use.

Well now we have another guy trying to play Boobsprit & mooron the dimwits.
That skipping crap is just that - crap. It's an urban myth. I've never
experienced that problem. I would also suspect that if this skipping over mud
story was started by a real user of the anchor they probably bought their
anchor used and they didn't have the optional mud palms attached which Fortress
includes with every anchor. As far as "not trusting" the Fortress I never said
that. As far as only anchoring in one spot I never said that either. Back to
the drawing board.
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