On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:58:27 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Jessica B wrote:
I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then
you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...)

Hey Bruce!
Send me one of your anchors?

If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out:

http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf


Cheers,

Bruce

Jeez, Bruce!
Nothing smaller than 500 pounds???


One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched
:-)

Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course.

Cheers,

Bruce


That outta do it!

Years ago there was a little, sort of unofficial, marina started up at
Langkawi, Malaysia. As the "marina" was on the west side of the island
and pretty well open to the west the blokes that started it cast up
some 1 meter cubes of concrete with a big metal ring on the top.
Considerable effort was expended to cast these things and get them all
arranged in the anchorage. At Last! Typhoon proof moorings! However,
as soon as the first guy drug up his anchor and paid the tariff to
moor to one of these titanic blocks the problems started.

It turned out that the one meter moorings were set in about 4 meters
of water.... in an area with 2.5 meter tides. As most of the ocean
going cruising boats draw at least 6 feet there was a bit an
interference when the tide went out. The solution was to hire a big
water pump and spend a couple of weeks jetting the blocks deeper into
the mud, and of course that costs money... so they raised the price to
moor which caused an immediate exodus.


Cheers,

Bruce