New Generation Anchor

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Not quite necessary to beat this dead horse again.
The same players are out there - there is a new to me site that attempts to classify the new anchors. It's not a forum so we don't have Craig and Alaine in our face.
However the site is a British marine store that flogs the French anchors Spade and Sword. (That's an anomaly if there ever was one!) There are six or seven pages that try to develop a criteria for comparing anchors. I say 'try' because glaring assumptions are made (like about the shape of the fluke) that only thorough and well designed testing will prove. And conclusions are colored in that the writer features the Spade in his business, but the methodology is interesting and seems to have been written by a sailor. A good whack at comparing the new single-fluke quick setting anchors.

West Marine now carries the Manson Supreme. Seems that this decision was generated from the Santa Cruz 'tests' we talked about above. Don't know that Mocna got in, even tho they placed as well as the Supreme, if not better. Big companies hang together. The edge was probably due to Manson being able to produce product cheaper than the smaller maker. And remember the primary sponser for the recent tests was West Marine.

Manson Supreme is now being talked about on cruising forums, with some boats converting their primary anchor to the Supreme, demoting their bruce. Larger boats can carry more anchors. We're looking for the versatile multi-bottom anchor.
And we're still looking for more testing. Don't trust anybody's opinion on the shape and style, tip weight, fluke area, dry setting, etc when they are comparing the new anchors. It's all BS. It's not so much what is said but who is saying it!
http://www.bluewatersupplies.com/new_gen_anchors.htm
google> New Generation Anchors - Explained, Compared and Rated -

Interested in your accessment.

And buy a new anchor from an independant dealer (ANY independant dealer) like Azure Marine, ok?