ANCHORS AWAY

I'm  trying to catch up on things and put up some blog posts of things done and not done this past season on board. One of the things I had been planning to do was to attach a waterproof camera to the 33 pound Bruce anchor that serves as BIANKA's main anchor. It has been a doing a great job since I bought the boat. It has held in 30 to 40 knots of wind including a brush with Hurricane Earl. I trust it but, I was still curious how it was doing it's job. I never did setup my camera for some underwater video of the Bruce but, a fellow in the Pacific Northwest has. He shows it setting pretty nicely with a 2.5:1 scope Here is his video:





He has also taken the time to video a copy of a Bruce anchor. This knock off anchor was attemted to be set with a 3.5:1 scope. The results of which reside between underwhelming to YIKES!:


Lessons learned: You get what you pay for and beware of cheap imitations! I'm glad I have a real Bruce anchor on the bow of BIANKA. Though I still plan to do some video's of my own in the future.