Members' Online Book: Anchoring Made Easy, Chapter 7 of 36

Specifying Primary Anchor Size

John Published Apr 24, 2019 165 comments Updated March 16, 2020

[This is a fully updated version of a chapter we originally published in 2015.]

In the previous chapters we wrote about anchors we like. Now let's move on to our recommendations for the size and material for our best bower (primary anchor).

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John

John was born and brought up in Bermuda and started sailing as a child, racing locally and offshore before turning to cruising. He has sailed over 100,000 miles, most of it on his McCurdy & Rhodes 56, Morgan's Cloud, including eight ocean races to Bermuda, culminating in winning his class twice in the Newport Bermuda Race. He has skippered a series of voyages in the North Atlantic, the majority of which have been to the high latitudes. John has been helping others go voyaging by sharing his experience for twenty years, first in yachting magazines and, for the last 12 years, as co-editor/publisher of AAC.

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