Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Richard N. Bush via CnC-List
Nine Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 502-584-7255 -Original Message- From: Syerdave--- via CnC-List To: C&c Stus List Cc: syerd...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, Aug 28, 2016 8:56 pm Subject: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? Quite a pair of testimonials... And some int

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Josh Muckley via CnC-List
Nobody mentioned the Ultra? I see them at the Annapolis boat show and they are quite confident of their superiority. I don't know. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Aug 27, 2016 8:08 PM, "Syerdave--- via CnC-List" wrote: > Interesting few hours today doing an anchor test.

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Charlie Nelson via CnC-List
com -Original Message- From: Syerdave--- via CnC-List To: C&c Stus List Cc: syerd...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, Aug 28, 2016 8:56 pm Subject: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? Quite a pair of testimonials... And some interesting replies. Based on the replies

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List
mailto:syerd...@gmail.com> Subject: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? Quite a pair of testimonials... And some interesting replies. Based on the replies here and much of what I've read online, there is little point in having a danforth type when a larger and smaller rocna,

Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Syerdave--- via CnC-List
list Subject: Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? Message-ID: <5573f535-4e2d-4734-8a4d-c1d071051...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I recently had my first anchor test. We were in Coechles harbor on Shelter Island overnight and a 50+ knot squal

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread David Knecht via CnC-List
I recently had my first anchor test. We were in Coechles harbor on Shelter Island overnight and a 50+ knot squall blew through at 2AM. I have a Rocna (I believe it is the 27 lb) with 20’ of chain and I had about 70’ of line which is about 6:1 in that area. I was one of the few boats that did

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Ken Heaton via CnC-List
gt; >>>> Danforth/Fortress anchors work well in sand and mud but are useless > in rock > >>>> and weeds. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Rick Taillieu > >>>> Shearwater Yacht Club > >>>> Halifax, NS. > >>>

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Persuasion37 via CnC-List
the CQR. >>>> Danforth/Fortress anchors work well in sand and mud but are useless in rock >>>> and weeds. >>>> >>>> >>>> Rick Taillieu >>>> Shearwater Yacht Club >>>> Halifax, NS. >>>> >>>>

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Robert Boyer via CnC-List
> Rick Taillieu >>> Shearwater Yacht Club >>> Halifax, NS. >>> >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of >>> Syerdave--- via CnC-List >>> Sen

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Dennis C. via CnC-List
lto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of >> Syerdave--- via CnC-List >> Sent: August-27-16 21:08 >> To: C&c Stus List >> Cc: syerd...@gmail.com >> Subject: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? >> >> Interesting few hours today doing an

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Joe Della Barba via CnC-List
My FX16 fortress is for a second anchor. I don't trust it alone Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 28, 2016, at 10:45, Neil Gallagher via CnC-List > wrote: > > When I bought Weatherly there was a Fortress, I think FX11, with it. Most of > the time it held, but once in a grassy bottom it just not

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread John Pennie via CnC-List
August-27-16 21:08 > To: C&c Stus List > Cc: syerd...@gmail.com > Subject: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? > > Interesting few hours today doing an anchor test. A young guy at port > Whitby marina was looking for an anchor for his tanzer 26, to replace

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread Neil Gallagher via CnC-List
When I bought Weatherly there was a Fortress, I think FX11, with it. Most of the time it held, but once in a grassy bottom it just not set at all in 18 kts breeze. After that, thanks to recommendations on this list, I bought at 33 lb Rocna. The Fortress is my lunch hook only now. Few weeks

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-28 Thread svpegasus38
I am using a 45lb CQR with 125 ft of chain and 200 ft rode. Mever have drug even with 3-4 boats rafted. I know over kill, but I like to sleep at night. It sets in any type bottom I have encountered. Did I mention I also have a windlass for the heavy work. For a lunch hook I let out les

Re: Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-27 Thread Rick Taillieu via CnC-List
List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge? Interesting few hours today doing an anchor test. A young guy at port Whitby marina was looking for an anchor for his tanzer 26, to replace the really tiny and cheap ski-boat danforth type that came with his boat (and had proved impossible to set).

Stus-List Anchor test - recommended lunch hook/kedge?

2016-08-27 Thread Syerdave--- via CnC-List
Interesting few hours today doing an anchor test. A young guy at port Whitby marina was looking for an anchor for his tanzer 26, to replace the really tiny and cheap ski-boat danforth type that came with his boat (and had proved impossible to set). We had discussed over beverages a few times