[C320-list] Anchors redux

[Doug Treff]

I went with the Mantus 35. I'm on the Chesapeake Bay as well. I've never dragged..... NEVER. Even in a thunderstorm with 50 knot gusts on a lee shore.

That being said, I did need to swap out to the extended roller because the anchor was making contact with the bow, and like you, I didn't want to chip the Gelcoat. When I first installed it, I was able to tie off the anchor to one side with a bungee as a stop-gap measure and it was fine until I got the roller replacement done.

I can't speak to the difficulty of the roller replacement job because I threw money at the Boat Yard mechanic and he attacked it with his air tools. There's not much room to swing a wrench inside that small compartment and it would have cost me more to buy the specialty tools.

All that considered, I couldn't be happier.

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Doug Treff
September Song
1996, Hull #350
doug at treff.us

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, at 3:59 PM, nibj wrote:
> I have been reading the posts about anchors for the 320 but would 
> appreciate the latest advice.
> 
> We have an early model 320 with the very short anchor roller.  We 
> cruise the upper Chesapeake and need an anchor for overnight stops. So 
> far we have only encountered a muddy bottom. We won’t be out in a 
> hurricane, but, for example, the gusts tomorrow night are forecast to 
> 30mph which would likely be the upper end of our comfort level.
> 
> We have some sort of heavy Danforth anchor in the chain locker, but it 
> cannot possibly fit on the roller.  So I have to manhandle it over the 
> side when we anchor (which isn’t hard) and wrestle it up and wash the 
> vile mud off it, all without the windlass, when we leave the anchorage. 
>  
> 
> So the obvious question is what anchor should I buy that can live one 
> the roller without damaging the hull (I don’t want to replace the bow 
> roller because it looks like an enormous job)? I have seen several 
> people say the following are OK:
> 
> 1) Rocna-15:  Seems popular.  Perhaps it is a bit over sized and the 
> template suggests a very tight fit. Some people say it doesn’t fit.  
> 
> 2) Mantus-25:  this may be a little on the small side.  The template 
> suggest it will fit although the fluke seems to be longer than that of 
> the Rocna.  
> 
> 3) Has anyone used a Mantus Anchor mate successfully?  
> 
> Can anyone comment about these anchors?  
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Peter
> Tangled #226