Anchoring/Mooring
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- Hurricane Mooring Pennant Photo Article
- Spade Anchor Failure, Update and Summary
- Bent Spade Anchor Analysis
- Helping a Member Choose an Anchor
- Things I Learned From Three Anchoring Reports
- Two More Anchor Selection Criteria
- Support Steve at SV Panope
- Colin on Anchoring
- The Ultimate Anchor
- Setting The Anchor
- Chafe-Pro Review
- Q&A: How To Design A Shorefast System
- Mooring Failure, The Loss Of “Kantele”
- Shorefasts And Line Reels on “Polaris”
- Anchor Angst
- Q&A: Breaking Load Of Anchor Chain
- The Truth Is Out About Old Style Anchors
- Q&A: What Size Anchor Should We Buy?
- Q&A: How Did You Construct Your Bow Rollers?
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Hurricane Mooring Pennant Photo Article
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Read more: Hurricane Mooring Pennant Photo ArticleIt’s forecast to be an active hurricane season so here is the first of two articles on preparing a mooring for storms. This one on the building a chafe resistant pennant.
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Spade Anchor Failure, Update and Summary
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Read more: Spade Anchor Failure, Update and SummaryA follow-up, with some significant changes, to our article on a failed Spade anchor.
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Bent Spade Anchor Analysis
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Read more: Bent Spade Anchor AnalysisWhen an anchor many of us have come to trust over two decades fails catastrophically, it’s time to think about why and what we can learn.
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Helping a Member Choose an Anchor
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Read more: Helping a Member Choose an AnchorA real world example demonstrating how each of us must think carefully about our own needs when selecting an anchor, not just blindly follow tests or anecdotal reports.
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Things I Learned From Three Anchoring Reports
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Read more: Things I Learned From Three Anchoring ReportsWe can learn a lot from field reports, as long as we select the right ones to learn from and keep an open mind.
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Two More Anchor Selection Criteria
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Read more: Two More Anchor Selection CriteriaJohn forgot two important anchor selection criteria in the last article, so this one fixes that.
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Support Steve at SV Panope
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Read more: Support Steve at SV PanopeLet’s support a guy who is making a real difference.
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Colin on Anchoring
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Read more: Colin on AnchoringColin shares some techniques he was reminded of while spending the summer cruising the south coast of Newfoundland, a challenging place to anchor if ever there was one.
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The Ultimate Anchor
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Read more: The Ultimate AnchorNot a lot more to say really.
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Setting The Anchor
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Read more: Setting The AnchorColin shares his technique for making sure the anchor is well set.
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Chafe-Pro Review
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Read more: Chafe-Pro ReviewChafe-Pro provides an off-the-shelf solution for protecting vulnerable lines from chafe.
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Q&A: How To Design A Shorefast System
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Read more: Q&A: How To Design A Shorefast SystemHow to build and use a shorefast system for boats.
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Mooring Failure, The Loss Of “Kantele”
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Read more: Mooring Failure, The Loss Of “Kantele”On 28th December last year a beautiful Saga 40—an English design not to be confused with this boat—was lost when she went ashore at Sint Eustatius in the eastern Caribbean when a mooring provided for yachts by the local marine park, STENAPA, failed in what looks from the photograph to be benign conditions.
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Shorefasts And Line Reels on “Polaris”
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Read more: Shorefasts And Line Reels on “Polaris”A few months ago we published a photo essay about Polaris, the custom Hutting 54 especially designed and built for cruising remote places, owned by our friends Michael and Martina. Since then several people have asked about the line reels shown in the photographs. I passed these questions on to Michael and got the following […]
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Anchor Angst
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Read more: Anchor AngstThe other day I was idly paging through the posts on a cruising forum about anchoring and marveling at the level of energy and emotion, not to mention the sheer volume of posts, that this subject seems to elicit.
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Q&A: Breaking Load Of Anchor Chain
20 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFreeRead more: Q&A: Breaking Load Of Anchor ChainOur latest thinking on chain starts with this chapter. Question: Do you have views on breaking load of main anchor chain compared to weight of boat? Our new boat is 40’ long and weighs something like 12 metric tons (26,000lbs) and a ‘standard’ 10mm (about 3/8”) galvanized chain has a breaking load of approximately 6 […]
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The Truth Is Out About Old Style Anchors
13 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: The Truth Is Out About Old Style AnchorsThere is an interesting comparison test of anchors in the October 2007 issue of SAIL magazine. All the usual anchor suspects are put through their paces but what stands out is the very poor performance of traditional anchors, particularly the CQR, against more modern designs like the Rocna and SPADE.
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Q&A: What Size Anchor Should We Buy?
10 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: Q&A: What Size Anchor Should We Buy?Question: My wife and I have recently sold our 40ft Cambria and purchased an Able Apogee 50 for extended cruising. We were very happy with our 20kg SPADE anchor on our 40 footer and would like to purchase a SPADE for the new boat. At 50 feet and with an unloaded weight of 35,000lbs, we […]
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Q&A: How Did You Construct Your Bow Rollers?
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Read more: Q&A: How Did You Construct Your Bow Rollers?We now have a full in depth chapter on designing and building a perfect anchor roller. Question: I just read your anchoring article in Offshore magazine—a subject really close to our hearts, and went to your website hoping to see how you constructed/designed your bow roller. We have a pretty similar collection of large/heavy anchors, […]
