karl, knock it off. next time READ the frickin thread before you respond. the
thread was about shock loads and some frickin idgit's claim that anchor are
SUPPOSED to drag because otherwise the shock loads (on an all chain rode) would
break the deck chocks off.

(Karl Denninger)
Date: 9/27/2004 9:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: . net


In article ,
JAXAshby wrote:


schackloof, you belong in jail. with all of your kind.


His "kind"? What, pray tell, do you mean by that?

his kind are the kind who purposely endanger the lives of others because
they
are too frickin lazy to anchor properly. you know, hoary, the clowns who
"drag
anchor" when in fact they purposely didn't set it correctly.

Oh give me a break.

If you have enough scope (like 10:1) anchors don't drag below their holding
capability. ABOVE it, they drag, of course.

Storm loads are extreme. There is also no guarantee that something won't
foul your rode (like, for example, another boat) and cause you to get loose
- often without any obvious reason AFTER the fact.

There were a LOT of boats that got loose in Ivan around here. I'll bet that
most of them got loose not because of their own mis-anchoring, but because
someone else dragged into them - it only takes one pinball in the machine to
screw dozens of people.

That's why I do EVERYTHING in my power to avoid anchoring out for such an
event, because while I have a shizload of brand new 3/4" rode to use for my
anchors, I cannot control the other guy who gets loose, and it takes very
little to screw you severely in a storm like this.

One little pontoon boat that comes from shore and blows into your rode will
hose you for sure.

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