Understood, Dave. It wasn’t a test of holding, more to see how it behaved as it set. I just tossed the anchors side by each, then walked away holding...
The alloy for that anchor is silicon bronze, roughly 95% copper, 4&1/2% silicon, and the remaining 1/2% manganese and other trace metals. The anchor...
I used Nick’s drawing to make a pattern which was cast into this several years back. It served well on an Ilur, and is now the spare/stern anchor for...
I remember a very blustery sail in the Deer Isle Thorofare, all of the sail and oar boats fully reefed down and feeling like heroes as we hiked out,...