If you, like me, enjoy anchoring in those small, remote coves, you are sure to have dragged your anchor at some time : no matter what anchor you use, poor holding or strong winds will have made sure of that.
I've certainly had my share of this kind of drama, and I have many memories of long nights of darkness and fear, checking my anchors and my position. And praying! .... Will I drag? Or am I safe enough to go to bed?
But such problems, rather than putting me off sailing, made me think seriously about anchors. I began my study of how anchors work - and of why they sometimes fail to work. Are all anchors equal, dragging with the same load on the same bottom? Will they drag with a constant resistance ? And if they do let go, will they dig in again? In a word, how do anchors behave?
I also studied my fellow sailors, each with his own relationship to his chosen, favourite anchor. How well did they understand their anchors? Were they really wise old "sea dogs", or were they simply acting with blind faith, blind also to the faults of their partner in anchoring? I soon learned that surprisingly few sailors ever really understand what is going on, on the sea floor under their boats.
I investigated the logic of anchor design, and began the extensive series of tests and experiments that led me to create the entirely new SPADE anchor. It is, I am totally confident, the best anchor that has ever existed.
This is the anchor that we can now offer you !
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