Request for Broken Anchor Information and Photographs
posted by John & Phyllis Web Site
Our friend Darrell Nicolson, editor at Practical Sailor, is getting ready to do some destruction testing on anchors. We think that this is a really good idea since even a great holding anchor won’t do you any good if it bends or breaks under load. Some of the new anchor designs look a bit suspect to us in this regard and so it will be great to get some hard test data on this.
As part of his project Darrell is looking for anecdotal information about, and photographs of, anchors that have broken or bent. We encourage any of our readers that have had an anchor fail structurally to send as much information as possible to Darrell at practicalsailor@belvoirpubs.com. It is always good to have real world data to back up a study like this. He asks that image files not be larger than 10mb.
While talking of Practical Sailor, we have been getting this excellent publication for 20 years or so and highly recommend it. For those of you who are not familiar with the magazine, they test and report on boats and equipment. Since they don’t accept advertising they are not subjected to leverage from manufacturers like most other sailing magazines are. For subscription information see www.practical-sailor.com. Tell them we sent you.
Disclosure: We will be writing some pieces and maybe some answers to questions for Practical Sailor, so the above plug is not totally altruistic.
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