I suspect that the light weight is the issue. Mine is a 30# aluminum.
Does not set in grass. Just flops over and drags on its side. Worked
really well in most other situations, but then again my Bruce does
just as well in those situations. Our CQR did better in grass
although I had to dive on it and get it started on occation as
well.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:33:16 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
wrote:
We used an
aluminum Spade as our primary in the Bahamas last winter but
were less that happy with it. Going to keep it as a backup.

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What kind of issues did you have with your spade? I have a 44# steel
spade which I regard as the best I've ever used. Perhaps the aluminum
makes it too light to set reliably?