{"id":23,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:15:22","slug":"anchor-and-rode-for-circumnavigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-and-rode-for-circumnavigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor and Rode for Circumnavigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Hi Steve &#8211; You were kind to advise me regarding the draft for my new boat last year. Now I am in the process of equipping the boat for a circumnavigation primarily in the tropics. My boat is a 57-foot sloop from X-yachts in Denmark with little windage, the weight is 20 tonnes. I am going to use the Bruce as main anchor and the suggested size for stormy conditions is 30kg, but as I remember from your book you suggest to move up in weight, which in this case will be 50kg. Can you help me to decide between 30 and 50 kg?<\/p>\n<p> I am bringing a 100m stainless chain. Can you recommend an appropriate dimension? Kind regards, Mogens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Mogens: 30KG is fine for normal conditions, but it will not be big enough for poor bottoms or storm conditions. My suggestion would be the 50Kg Bruce. I would not use stainless chain as it is weaker than the higher grades of carbon steel chain. We normally use a schedule 7 lifting chain, galvanized. For our Sundeer 56\/60 we recommend 5\/16&quot; schedule seven &#8211; for Beowulf we used 3\/8&quot; schedule 7. &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve &#8211; You were kind to advise me regarding the draft for my new boat last year. Now I <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-and-rode-for-circumnavigation\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anchoring-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36476,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/36476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}