anchors

As new owners of and Ericson 38-200 we are planning to replace the existing bow 25 lb Danforth with a new bow anchor for our trips to the Channel Islands where we stay out for a week or more. The Danforth is rated ok for a 38 footer up to winds of 20 knots. Not enough. We have seen 45 knots out...

Over here: An extract: "But mariners, oil outfits, and the military have big hopes for an unlikely contraption called RoboClam under design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." "RoboClam is meant to become the first "smart" anchor, a major departure from the prosaic piece of...

Today I reinstalled the anchor and chain and 250 feet of new line. This project, if it could be called that, started this summer when we were anchoring out and noticed that our decade-old fancy schmancy braid-on-braid gold nylon rode was looking, well, peculiar. The core was poking through the...