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I found the Link by searching YouTube, here it is;
https://youtu.be/52vu7bbvqC0
I am glad he made it, I agree with his initial assessment, but I prefer to have more then one anchor.... I rode out hurricane Noel aboard Faith, my Manson Supreme had the load but my fortress(s) were set as a backup just in case... I agree with mis statements about the humming, vibrating, and banging of the wind.... really much more loud then one might expect!
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One Storm Mantus on 2 Rodes
Current experienced cruiser forums advise much more conservative
approaches to storm anchoring, some advising to put out as many
as 4 anchors. Some tandem on a single rode.
Craig, setting at least two anchors for a blow is the way it should go.
Your hurricane ride on Supreme impressed me immensely. Of course,
I didn't remember you doubled with Fortress. I've whole-hogged on
Supreme long time because of your positive experience with it.
When I get there, littlegull will carry two Primarys: a 35lb galv and
same size aluminum Spade as stern. Take apart Fortress, Maybe a
Mantus as storm. Current Mantus is experimental. It has to up-
grade into a simpler, more intelligent anchor.
Pair of Spades are also take-aparts but essentially pin together
almost instantly, rather than Mantus' requiring six bolts, wrench, all
PITA small parts incl lock washers -- 4 of which have large sharp
hex heads sticking out of fluke bottom, where we would naturally
down it on deck! Stupid... And roll bar too big and prone to fouling,
below and on the bow. Mantus flat creased fluke blade has no equal.
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The large mantid (triangular head, long slender body) UMA set for
storm Matthew, not knowing its size, looked imco, to what might be
regularly set as the primary. That the monster performed flawlessly
says huge about design and 'deep set' stability. In 24 hrs of chaos,
UMA never GPSed an inch!!
Dan's* anti-chafe procedures are good. Imco chafe protection like
firehose should always be lashed to chocks, not the line, and be
larger diameter than the rope it cradles, for water wash.
*That will have to do. Haven't found their names yet. Youtubes are
very well done, bright, energetic, topped with confidence. . They
are doing/done everything right on the upgrade of their cruiser!
Later EDIT {OK. Previous assumptions here have been erased. Went
back for a second look to "Sailing Uma, step 55" - Post storm, where
he puts the boat back together. He winches the two rodes in
simultaneously, port and starboard. Each rode is spliced to its own
chain, hauled onto the bow thru large rattling chocks and over deck
with the cockpit port and starboard sheet winches. This means of
course both chains must each be attached to a single Crosby 209A
shackle. There's a simplicity & logic to this system, riding one hook.}
Mantus, when finally hauled in using spinnaker-pole and main
halyard, reveals the buoy trip line fouled tightly twice around fluke
and shaft, "but didn't seem to bother it too much."
He set no bridle/snubber either. But two 7:1 rodes may have acted
to 'soften' surges. Single nylon line working inside chafe protection
at the chock has been known to melt. Two lines mo'betta, sharing
the work. If I set two anchors to ride out a storm, it would be with
separate rode, as you say. Line always (altho I have no experience)
seems like the weak link in a storm survival situation. BUT you must
be holding a "badass anchor." And new quadplait oversized rode.
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Accessing the Steve Goodwin SV PANOPE YouTube series anchor
tests, you might be persuaded, if you're cruising, to check out his
Supreme and Rocna reset tests, where both act badly because the
flukes at initial set hold bottom material, won't let it go, won't let
it slip off when pulled around 180 from initial set, as in tidal change,
causing the hooks to plow or pull out, unable to reset, because they
fouled. Don't want this sequence of events at an unknown anchorage.
What have you experienced? Imco the Goodwin tests are authentic,
even if some sailors don't like the short scope and quick 180s. I do.
When it lets go, we want to know with what anchor we trust below.
Haven't been looking in on SailFar. I mean to, but I'm so jealous
and embarrassed. Hope you are well and enjoying the sailing life.
Thanks for the blue line!!
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TEN ATTRIBUTES OF AN ALL PURPOSE ANCHOR.
Here are seven Spade Safety Criteria from their uk site: anchor
1. must dig in fast.
2. must bury deep.
3. give max holding without dragging.
4. have constant resistance to movement
---even if eventually moves under extreme load.
5. must hold despite wind or current shifts. (reset)
6. rode must not foul the anchor.
7. must be strong enough to withstand very high loads.
. Does not require special mooring line
---or special anchoring technique.
. Snug in bow roller / self launching / self retrieving.
. Easily dismantled.
The range of Spade anchors should be CS certified. And Mantus too!
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Crosby SHACKLES
are the best American made galvanised shackles money can buy.
C. makes can't-fail-within-their-rating industrial rigging products.
Ubicquitous ( copied by others) trademark RED PIN in a shackle
once signaled an alloy pin twice as strong as an unpainted pin.
They make all kinds of shackles. The red pin is now a brand
mark. But always is a double strong alloy pin in a Crosby shackle.
Nowadays any colored pins make any shackle seem more special.
Defender** stocks 2 kinds of Crosby: G-209A and G209.
The working load limit for a G-209 3/8" shackle is one metric ton.
WLL (embossed on side of bow) for a G-209A 3/8" shackle is two
metric tons (4410 lbs). Pin: 7/16"
Defender carries the full range of each 'forged-quenched-tempered'
screw-pin shackle. However, there is a red alloy pin in the G-209.
but Twice as strong G-209A - with alloy pin that is plain galvanise,
not red - looks like regular shackle except for numbers embossed
on the bow. Whole shackle has twice the working load of G209.
Is there any reason not to have a double strong bow shackle on
your best bower?
MANTUS* 316s.s. (3/8"- WL 3/4 ton) -as does any s.s. shackle
all have lower working loads than the standard G-209 Crosby.
Crosby does not make s.s. bow shackles.
D shackles are called chain shackles by Crosby.
Counterfeit Crosby bow shackles are around, probably not in USA.
*Mantus now has unique oversize eyeless pin ss anchor shackles.
Also sell galv. bow shackles. They do not say where these shackles
are made.
They are otherwise spec'ed, and the eyeless pin is worth discussion.
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AS OF 2/2018
** Defender in their 2018 Catalog tops their nameless Crosby list
with a Titan brand. Immediately flash: China!. Yup, TitanMarine is
a trade name of CMPCanadaMetalPacific. Why else name asian
manufactory after an ancient race of Greek giants? {CMP rescued
PeterSmith's RocnaAnchor after its infamous fraud debacle. Now
advertised as "Original Rocna", they for a decade have not been
steel plate fabricated in NewZealand, but in China with cast metal
flukes.} That's an original Smith-style lie.
ADVERTISED 'ORIGIONAL ROCNA' ARE NOT ORIGINAL ROCNA.
This deliberate word play is meant to deceive. Why do it -- if you
can't be transparent about materials and origin of your current
anchors -- it's a lie -- and is in line with the fraud of lesser steel
grades Rocna got caught substituiting when they secretly moved
anchor manufacture to China.
His 100% cast anchor:
Vulcan (Roman metalwork god) fluke & shank are poured, not
forged, in China. Who can say CMP chain/ shackles aren't made
in China? Which is not to imply the products are faulty -- but their
true origin is hidden -- cast metal for anchors is never revealed
-- NO product actually made in Canada, as we are led to believe.
And here's our oldest marine outfitter: Defender, featuring these
imposters dressed in their white-skin name in catalog and internet.
Why trust these people?
Any of this con equal one true Crosby? that you trust your boat to?
CanadaMetalPacific CMP, as far as I can find, is a global sourcing
distributor, based in Canada, with all metal products, including
their extensive range of Martyr anodes, made in China by $2.50hr
martyrs.
Go ahead,
buy the half fast Titan 3/8" shackle for $6.50 less than the G209A...
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Lao Tzu
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Spade reset
Goodwin's 90+ sv PANOPE Youtube videos, taken together, are an
extraordinary tour deforce, and gift to us. But Video #56, taken alone,
is the most reliable anchor 'compilation' we'll ever experience. It's a
deep five part study of common anchors of our time. This one video
says it all, surely the most significant finding ever put together.
Notable what anchors are not included -- without comment. Crocna anchor
totally ignored in this summary survey. ...You've been reading these past posts,
you know this thing-a-ma-pete hook has personally been tossed into the
Pit of Doom.
WET
This focus must bother some sailors a lot. But a lot really is in limbo if you are
not yet cruising, or limit cruising to certain areas.
FIXED FLUKE-BLADE STYLE-GALV.STEEL ANCHORS
rollbar flat-creased Mantus.
rollbar flat-curved Supreme.
rollbar convex Super Sarca.
rollbar scoop Rocna,
will, by all rights when pulled around in a 180 rotation after initial set, turn
through the seafloor - and still buried or not, reset. No reset if pulled around
with sea floor stuck in the fluke. PANOPE videos show clumps stuck on specific
shafts. Supreme-Fail. Rocna-Fail.
Mantus - 50% tip weight, makes a fuss in 180, but resets instantly. (Video #62)
Vented Sarca - 33%, fails reset. Convex blade fluke, downcurved tip - dragged.
YET Rex Francis' original Sarca, in a heftier version did well in later videos.
(#43>#48). From a dry point of view: a clever design, but not simple enough.
From mixed performances, it can drag instead of reset. It's probably best where
it originally was intended: on the bow of small Aussie fishing boats.
(If you like plow style anchors, Rex has created the vented EXCEL 20%, which
looks like Simpson-Lawrence Delta plow, but completely corrects & obsoletes it.
Australian Excell & Sarca -- two of only four anchors anointed by Goodwin.)
It is true, and obvious, that blade anchors won't always reset in all bottoms.
But if they clear off material during 180, or shortly after: they have to reset.
We have to understand our Prmary. No maybes. When a heavy tip weight
anchor pulls out, we're pretty sure it will dig back in and reset everytime.
Both Supreme and Rocna are not dependable. They have problem tip
weights. And real serious problems resetting after rotation.
Goodwin's svPANOPE Video #56: Tip weight: Mantus 50% - Supreme 23%
- Crocna 30% (guess) - Spade 42%, as test measured, home page says 50%.
DRY -- AN UNCOMMONLY COOL LOOKING ANCHOR
Masterfully designed with common low carbon A36 steel. Flawlessly fabricated
inTunisia. (wage: $3.00 hr equivalent ) Welding doesn't alter tensil strength.
Assume bent shaft can be persuaded back straight without weakening.
WET
Wedge fluke SPADE is known to tumble or pull out in a 180. It does not readily
collect seabed. (Not always the case, there's sticky mud out there.) Yet, NO roll
bar Spade helped by its heavy tip resets immediately. Certainly witnessed in the
GoPro record we now have. It tumbles probably because the tetrahedral under
body is unlikely when set to move sideways as the shaft rotates. Imco, sideways
pull pushes the anchor up and out of set.
[YouTube: Goodwin SV PANOPE. Spade videos, #12, #13, #55 and #27, #64.]
The Spade seems to overcome pulling out and other limitations, like its scoop
fluke, imco. Could be fluke-top geometry is a perfect fluid concavity - that other
Spade-inspired anchors have failed to copy correctly.
{Have seen no proof that a concave spoon shaped fluke top actually contributes
to an anchor holding better than flat or convex. It is a myth..}
Spade shaft slender entry thru fluke with carefully fabricated triangular section
may also help shed seabed without need for vents. Steel Spade is smooth galv,
and signature yellow paint helps slip sticky material.
Assume deepest set can be achieved with an unencumbered flat blade design.*
Wedge volume must displace more sea floor to set deep. May not always.
It's my opinion, of course, these limits on Spade. They seem in balance, coming
together in an anchor better than its compromises. Spade scoop fluke geometry
is the most copied by all modern single fluke anchors. Cuts thru kelp. Holds in
rock. Afterall, the design works: When Spade pulls out: we count on reset.
Housed, on display in a bow roller, the open end tetrahedron looks unfinished
like something's missing, like a couple lithium batteries must've fallen out.
Could say The Spade has a forgiving quality = Reliability. That's a friendly thing.
It's about trust.
Many cruisers depend on steel Spade for their Primary.
Yet to be invented: SUMSUCH - ALL-PURPOSE CRUISING ANCHOR
*Imagine a hybrid Spade/Mantus. Creased Mantus flat fluke married
to a curved 3-sided Spade shank with a very sharp tetrahedral wedge
under fluke packing tip weight and Poiraud's clean single pin
mortise/tenon innovation. NO HOOP. Toolless take apart.
Visual inspection of the S80 steel Spade shank in my possession - what can be
seen inside with a 1300 lumen led flashlight - seems equal to the galvanise
outside. There's a tiny breather hole visable inside the shackle cutout.
There to help molten zinc get into the narrow end. Imco keeping it open can
help clear mud from living inside.
Rust problems on a sound anchor? Aluminum-filled MCU coating ALUTHANE
will check corrosion as well if not better than regalvanising, or any zinc paint.
Out of the gargle of successful and partially successful anchors, Goodwin's 4
only 'never-fail' set/reset anchors are: Super Sarca - Excel - Mantus - Spade.
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DEFENDER UNLOADING MANSON ANCHORS
Schaefer, importer of Manson Anchors, seems to have ended their contract.
Defender is having a final? closeout sale of every Boss and Supreme.
As of 1/1/18, Schaefer's home page has yet to say anything about their deal
with Manson. But Schaefer has a deal for you: a Manson Danforth style Racer
anchor, $212.35 now for $35 ! (What's that called, plummet pricing?)
Wonder if Goodwin has anything to do with this...? (Schaefer axing Manson.)
Don't know if Schaefer had exclusive US import concession. Glad they quit.
Schaefer is a precision tool company. Disconcerting to find Manson Anchors
and its turgid copywriting on Schaefer's internet home page.
Manson Boss meant to be the answer for power boats generally unable to
house rollbar fluke Supreme. Marketed as a powerboat anchor. (focus may
be a mistake.) It could be a pretty good anchor. Maybe just never caught on.
PB owners probably aren't anchor style conscious. Boss attempts to be an
anchor that on seafloor orients itself to penetrate without needing an
appendage.
Design result seems to have been to do it without increasing tip weight by
adding fluke area! Boss also has a disconcerting and useless 'rock slot' shank
that visually dooms the design. Manson & Rocna both depend on customers to
test their new gen anchors -- rather than copacetic inhouse R&D to work bugs
out -- before going into production and foisting thousands of half fast designs
on world-wide sailors. Good enough not good enough for any best bower.
RollBars on anchors are a passing design fancy. They are an unnecessary
addition like a crutch, and take away from tip weight, a proven benefit for
instant setting. Imco they are on their way out and essentially obsolete.
INDEPENDANT ANCHOR TESTING
Turns out tip weight really is what first delivers a successful single fluke anchor.
Not always, of course.
Our smaller lighter anchors benefit from tip-weight.
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ANCHOR QUALITY
The only people responsible for quality testing anchors are the makers, There is
no agency, society, third party that oversees 'recreational anchors'. There are
'certifiers': Lloyds, RINA and others hired by the manufacturer to certify materials
used, but not construction methods. Costwise, it's understandable no 3rd party is
regularly seafloor testing -- or ultimate shaft to fluke bend and break testing.
EVERY AUTHENTIC COMMERCIALLY SOLD YACHT ANCHOR SHOULD SUBMIT TO
A VOLUNTARY Certification Society CS PROOF TEST.
This is a decades old shank to fluke certification proof test that all makers sign on
to. Some don't. Some won't.
imco, All commercially sold yacht anchors ought to be rated exactly like chain
and shackles are, with WLL (working load limit), and a modified - UBS rating
(ultimate breaking strength). This will help put anchors on the same sea floor.
Brute strength does not necessarily make a first class anchor. Manufacturers that
hide or omit common specifications cannot be wholly trusted. Nor trusted at all!
Manufacturer's home page dragging videos, beach/underwater, are always a con.
Hard to guess whose product tops all the others?
'Responsible' is not an operative word here.
'Reliable', often used -- but impossible to prove.
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When you depend on an anchor, be sure yours is dependable..... Loud Sue
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You never enjoy the world aright,
till the sea itself floweth in your veins,
till you are clothed with the heavens
and crowned with the stars:
and perceive yourself to be the sole
heir of the whole world.... Thomas Traherne 1636 - 1674
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