[Rhodes22-list] Another Danforth question

[Michael Meltzer]

The spade is the best :-)

 the answer "it depends".
1)The spade it best of class these day, highest holding, all bottom type, fast set and reset, will not sail, pay deadly and hard to
store without a roller, r22 size is model 60, it does break down, use it for storm and to sleep on.
2)Bruce(claw), best for short scope, fast set and reset, will not sail, great for rocky, hard and hard sand, not great in soft
mud(it need to backed down into hard stuff), the claw is cheap enough that if you thing you might loose your anchor(slip the rode)
it the one. hard to store anything other the 5kg on the boat. I use it for the "always ready anchor". rode out 40 knot gale on it.
3)the danforth, I hate them, they only seem to work in soft mud, anything else, do not reset but skip over the bottom and rarely get
more then one "point " in the bottom, you keep moving once dragging starts, biggest problem is they sail when you need them
most(like lost an engine), only saving grace is they are light and store on the bow, but most people do not keep the rode connected
so they are not ready to run., 12 pound seems to be a r22 size.
4)qcr,delta, plowtype's they weight to for the rhodes22 size, they do not break down and are very hard to store.
5)the fisherman is the standard for rocks/weeds but no one seems to use them anymore.
6)any 2-stoke motor :-) sorry bill.

I think Richard did a good job with the chain, but my two cents worth, I use 1 foot of chain per boat length,(rule of thumb around
me, it mostly to protect the rode from the bottom but does help with the scope) but you must watch the total system weight, keep in
mind that your wife is going to lift it, 1/4 chain is fine for the boat, 22 feet at .65 pound per foot is 14 pounds plus 12 pounds
for the anchor is about the limit of women can lift and move around a deck(sorry unPC), soon or later she will be lifting the full
weight from anchoring to deep, if it's to heavy the boat will be scratched up.

For your next question, get 200 feet of NewEngland 3/8 3 strand. the 1/2 is to stiff for the boat, this is a case were bigger is not
better, for a storm anchor 200 feet of 7/16, and use a shackle not a swivel(it will unwind the 3 strand).

MJM




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mltroy at netreach.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:11 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Another Danforth question


> Has anyone had the opportunity to compare the painted Danforth type anchor
> that comes with the boat with one of the true Danforth's? for our primary
> anchor we've been  using a true Danforth that we had as the big anchor for
> our ComPac 16 rather than the anchor that came with the boat. I know the
> Danforth well enough to usually get it to set the first time. It's been so
> successful that we haven't tried the other which is not much (if any)
> larger but I'm curious about how well the other anchor works.
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 Rhodes 22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD / Ft. Washington, PA
>
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