Cruising Helmsman (Digital)

Cruising Helmsman (Digital)

1 Issue, August 2016

ideas locker: Petrea McCarthy

ideas locker: Petrea McCarthy
Anchor update Since my short test of the controversial Cooper nylon dinghy anchor, I have had the opportunity to try one long term. When we tested some years ago some of our testers could not make the Cooper hold at all yet, when I tested one in sand, it clearly out-performed its opposition. Perhaps this is not saying much as the opposition, a four kilogram generic sand anchor, refused to hold at all. I have had the same experience with several of these ‘sand’ anchors – they just do not work, except as a weight. You might as well tie a rock on your anchor line. Regardless of this, in my testing in sand, as that is the most common use for a dinghy anchor, the little 1kg Cooper held…
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