On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:09:47 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 22 Jan 2005 01:48:46 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:


hint: bigger is LOTS better.

anchor weight = 10x chain weight, despite what bathtub sailors tell ya.


Absolutely. Figure on an all chain rode and an anchor that
weighs..... what?


10,000 pounds minimum, and that's just the lunch hook.

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Jax says you shouldn't use an all chain rode. He learned that from
the navy and merchant marine. Apparently they have had problems
losing their catenaries.

My grandmother would have had an answer for losing your catenary. She
would have said: "Where did you last leave it?" She was just full of
wisdom like that. If I had a mishap as a kid she would always say:
"If you hadn't been there, it wouldn't have happened?"

How do you argue with logic like that?