gene, you are one gullible sob. ever understand a single thing you read?

nah.

go read The Daily Worker for insights in social economics, but for sure stay
out of any discussions of anchors.



From: "Gene Kearns" **** dumb squat****
Date: 9/17/2004 8:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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On 15 Sep 2004 12:23:55 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

1) It decreases the pulling angle on the anchor relative to the bottom,
thus
improving the the ability of the anchor to *bite* the bottom better.

not really, except under lite wind conditions. Then it is true.

I guess current and tide are different, somehow. I suppose the anchor
and rode, somehow, just *know* the difference. "Lite" is ambiguous
and not very useful.

Moving from an all line rode to a chain rode (as shown in the
accompanying URL) can increase the usable rode tension by a factor of
8.

http://www.johnsboatstuff.com/Articles/anchor.htm
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