On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:29:50 GMT, Ronald Raygun
wrote:

Would you, for example, give much credence to anchoring
recommendations from someone who has never used an anchor?

Spirit Lake Ia is 19 feet deep nearly everywhere . The usual anchor
that came with rental fishing boats was a cement filled tin can. Very
few knew anything about anchors. [We had a duck boat with a 20 lb
Danforth with a fifty foot braided rode.. I think my dad just bought
the biggest one at the store. I often buried it it in the mud with the
engine, and it never dragged.] The runabouts and sailboats all lacked
anchors, so any bogus advice would do.

Casady