I remember thinkxingu's exhaustive research on this …………. but I have to tell you around the same timeframe we moved to the Fortress ( available at Parafunalia) and it has been SUPERB.
It is quite an amazing anchor - it is as light as a feather ( which my wife loves). When you first lift it, you would swear it would not hold a 6' skiff. We have only about 3' of chain leader and this thing grabs first time/ every time & holds steady in the roughest of "sandbar" conditions ---- no more slipping & resetting!
In deep water settings (Fall when the water is not swimmable), we have held other 26 to 32 footers "rafted to us" with ours being the sole anchor !
One trick we have learned with the Fortress -- as it is so lightweight, when dropping anchor in deeper bow waters - allow it a few seconds to "float" to the bottom (10-15 seconds) before reversing into position. It DOES NOT drop like a normal dead weighted anchor.
We have a 26' Crownline Bowrider
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A bad day on the Big Lake (although I've never had one) - Still beats a day at the office!!
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