Do you have?

I have 5... is that to many.

2 Danforths, a fisherman, a folding 4 spade grapple, and a 5 spade non
folding grapple.

My favorate all around is the folding 4 spade made in Norway, stores
easy and sets good enough in most conditions, but will drag some thru
mud. A good lunch hook.

Id like to have a plow type, but with what I have do you think it
would be overkill?

Joe

Joe wrote:

2 Danforths, a fisherman, a folding 4 spade grapple, and a 5 spade non
folding grapple.

I have one - a danforth that looks a bit big for the boat. Haven't tried it
because the boat isn't in the water yet. How do you find the danforth for
recovering from mud? (Assuming you recover manually...)


My favorate all around is the folding 4 spade made in Norway, stores
easy and sets good enough in most conditions, but will drag some thru
mud. A good lunch hook.

I'm thinking of getting a folding grapple that will fit in the little
chain/rode locker in the bow, and keeping the danforth in a cockpit locker
for use as a kedge.


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Wally
www.artbywally.com
www.wally.myby.co.uk

I have two Danforths and I just picked up a Bruce anchor, which I plan to try
out this Friday.

RB

Bobsprit wrote:

I have two Danforths and I just picked up a Bruce anchor, which I
plan to try out this Friday.

We have a Bruce on the Sonata. Only used it once, for a lunch stop, and it
worked fine in mud. When I hauled it up, I found that only one prong had
actually dug in. It was fairly thick mud - it wouldn't clear by swishing the
anchor in the water.


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Wally
www.artbywally.com
www.wally.myby.co.uk

Wally wrote:
We have a Bruce on the Sonata. Only used it once, for a lunch stop, and it
worked fine in mud. When I hauled it up, I found that only one prong had
actually dug in. It was fairly thick mud - it wouldn't clear by swishing the
anchor in the water.

My experience with the Bruce anchor is that it tends to dig in only
proportional to the load. If you didn't take a heavy strain in setting
it, it might have only dug in one fluke a little bit. However it seems
to take a good bite quickly (unlike plows or Danforths, which you can
drag across the bottom for many yards) when a strain comes on the rode.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Wally" wrote in message ...
Joe wrote:

2 Danforths, a fisherman, a folding 4 spade grapple, and a 5 spade non
folding grapple.

I have one - a danforth that looks a bit big for the boat. Haven't tried it
because the boat isn't in the water yet. How do you find the danforth for
recovering from mud? (Assuming you recover manually...)

I have a US NAVY no. 1 Windless/winch it's a rachet type winch made
in 1901.

Breaking out of the mud when it bites it a bit hard, mud always
covers it, all we have in the bay here is mud, mud and oyster reefs,
and mud & grass. Lots of mud, In a hard blow in deep mud, it's easy to
put skid marks across the bottom.

Usually Ill pull it up to the water line than was it a mile or so
before hauling it into the hawse pipe, just to help get rid of some of
the freakin mud.

I hate mud BTW, always makes a mess.



My favorate all around is the folding 4 spade made in Norway, stores
easy and sets good enough in most conditions, but will drag some thru
mud. A good lunch hook.

I'm thinking of getting a folding grapple that will fit in the little
chain/rode locker in the bow, and keeping the danforth in a cockpit locker
for use as a kedge.

Ive had a few nights walking across the oyster reef carrying a big
ass danforth.


I keep my folding grappel in the lazzerte, on deck and ready to
deploy in the channels. It's the emergency brake.

Joe

"Joe" wrote in message
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I keep my folding grappel in the lazzerte, on deck and ready to
deploy in the channels. It's the emergency brake.


If you obeyed the Coll Regs, then you shouldn't need an " emergency"
brake!!



Regards


Donal
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That's just plain dumb, Donut.


"Donal" wrote


If you obeyed the Coll Regs, then you shouldn't need an " emergency"
brake!!



Regards


Donal
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Scotty Potty wrote...

"I'm as dumb as a plain donut."


Agreed!


RB

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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"Donal" wrote


If you obeyed the Coll Regs, then you shouldn't need an " emergency"
brake!!

That's just plain dumb, Donut.

How many times have you deployed an anchor as the result of an emergency?

I've never been in a situation where the anchor could have averted a
difficult situation. The closest that I came was on a friend's boat when
the engine overheated in Portsmouth Harbour. We had the main up in a couple
of seconds. If we had deployed the anchor, we would have become a hazard to
other boats.


Regards


Donal
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