http://setsail.com/gettng-to-the-bottom-rocna/ A New Paradigm for Cruising Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://setsail.com/gettng-to-the-bottom-rocna/comment-page-1/#comment-31836 Come Clean ROCNA! Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:17:49 +0000 http://setsail.com/?p=5153#comment-31836 [...] other boats before she sets. I have heard good reports from experienced cruisers and the Dashews http://setsail.com/gettng-to-the-bottom-rocna/#more-5153 even recommend the Rocna as an improvement on their beloved [...] [...] other boats before she sets. I have heard good reports from experienced cruisers and the Dashews http://setsail.com/gettng-to-the-bottom-rocna/#more-5153 even recommend the Rocna as an improvement on their beloved [...]

]]> http://setsail.com/gettng-to-the-bottom-rocna/comment-page-1/#comment-3315 peter Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:07:24 +0000 http://setsail.com/?p=5153#comment-3315 Hey Steve, My wife and I have been full time cruisers for the last 6 years, Australia, S.E.Asia , Sth Pacific mostly. We changed anchors from a CQR (copy) to a Bruce both where good anchors The Bruce set very quickly, in a 180` wind change you could feel it pull out and reset. We have now had a 60lb Manson Supreme for 18 months, this sets very quickly as well, we recently sat out a low pressure system with gusts to 72 kn , anchored in clean sand we never moved , however we have had 4 instances when the anchor refused to reset after a 180` wind shift. What has caused this in every instance is the bottom material we where anchoring in was of a thick mud/clay and once it was muddy sand held together with sea grass roots, we always back down heavily to set our anchor and this forces the mud to compress into the concave shaped fluk and the roll bar stops this mud from falling out and clearing the anchor in the wind shift, this then won't let the anchor reset. This also happened in a tide change once, we slowly drifted past other anchored yachts at 1 to 2 knots, not untill we lifted and cleared the offending mud did our anchor reset. In clean sand we have never had a problem . Just something to consider Hey Steve, My wife and I have been full time cruisers for the last 6 years, Australia, S.E.Asia , Sth Pacific mostly. We changed anchors from a CQR (copy) to a Bruce both where good anchors The Bruce set very quickly, in a 180` wind change you could feel it pull out and reset. We have now had a 60lb Manson Supreme for 18 months, this sets very quickly as well, we recently sat out a low pressure system with gusts to 72 kn , anchored in clean sand we never moved , however we have had 4 instances when the anchor refused to reset after a 180` wind shift. What has caused this in every instance is the bottom material we where anchoring in was of a thick mud/clay and once it was muddy sand held together with sea grass roots, we always back down heavily to set our anchor and this forces the mud to compress into the concave shaped fluk and the roll bar stops this mud from falling out and clearing the anchor in the wind shift, this then won’t let the anchor reset. This also happened in a tide change once, we slowly drifted past other anchored yachts at 1 to 2 knots, not untill we lifted and cleared the offending mud did our anchor reset. In clean sand we have never had a problem . Just something to consider

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