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Good piece of kit, now at a reasonable price. My comment is do you need all that complexity. You can get a straight LFP battery for the same price and four times the capacity. Would that small Bluetti have sufficed for your two day trip? If you do need 110 / 230v, better to have a small petrol generator. Then you can run all day, mine 1000w and about the same cost (ok, again)

Your description of a bucket was pretty much told to me as "The most reliable pump in the world, is a scared sailor with a bucket. Just pray you never need it sonny."

Lots of comments in favour of the Bruce but I would't trust it to set or reset from the side. As shown on the video lying on it's side, it's riding along. For my money the anchor that buries deep and gives me peace of mind is the spade type.

Great video man. Sorry to hear about that situation with your Dad , he would have been proud of your good work on the tips etc

I just used roller boom reefing for the first time on our F31r. It sure was easy and quick.

Great demonstration! Thanks!

It's so amazing that they circumnavigated on a sailboat in 41 days.

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Hi, brilliant video, do you have any issues with Dyneema suffering from degradation caused by UV exposure?

I have a question. When it comes to soft shackles failing. Why not pop something (a piece of line) beyond the knot to prevent it pulling through? You’re much clever than me so perhaps you can think this through, come up with a solution, test, and publish a video of the results. 👍🏽😁

True; but sometimes in deeper water (20m+ where I anchor) 5 to 1 is not practical with other boats and the shore close by. A heavy anchor and all chain makes the difference.

If you operate a vessel and the anchor "is a mystery" to you... Stop.

It's almost flying at this point.

I'm just a boat dreamer right now 😅 but this is very cool to learn.

Looks like they did not

⁠the windex literatly points to the wind. The luff is literatly the front of the sail. If the front of the sail goes straight into the wind...never mind why am I bothering

If you lined the luff of the sails with the windex you'de be in irons

Honestly I've been looking at the interior as one of the last things to consider. I've put the underside of the boat first. Then the top side (Deck, rigging) After that, the interior, and lastly the looks. If money wasn't an issue, I think a Kraken 50 would likely be the best for what I want to do. (Sing-Handed Full time live aboard world cruising) Encapsulated Keel, Skeg Hung Rudder, Heavy Layup, Center Cockpit, Sloop.

let the Danforth vs Bruce battle begin

Super helpful. Thank you.

If you take a look at some serious anchor tests you will see that Bruce anchors are outdated and not reliable. They can suddenly brake free, and sometimes they want reset.

I was there in the 1970's. cold water though.

It doesn't take a genius to see that the design is a trade off. All for speed, nothing for seaworhiness. Dangerous speed sleds of course.

I like to go above the 5 to 1. I have about 100 m chain. I do anchor mostly in 4 to 10 m. Add one meter up to the anchor roller and one is in in 5 to 11 mm. That would mean 25 to 55 m anchor chain. When I expect heavy wind and the anchorage is not to crowded, I use some 20 to 30 m extra chain. I started doing that, when I realized that in most cases I could stop the anchor from dragging by putting out more chain. The longer chain makes also for less jerking on the chain. because the boat ha to lift more chain. I often use an anchor boje, both to check were the anchor is and on rocky bottom to retrieve the anchor if it is stuck.

It's not so much sailing as soaring while dragging a keel in the water. When the role of the submerged part is to generate downforce rather than upthrust, it really feels like it's a different category of thing, can you really call this sailing, or for that matter a boat? Maybe a hydrodynamically tethered glider?

So even with boats, kites hold the world record? 🤭

Excellent video!

Great video. I learned some things. Like the loop harness. You only said "you may need to adjust this to fit" once but it applies to all the scraps of line. The most obvious one in your demo being the lower prusik loop could well have been smaller and would have allowed larger "steps". I guess that is the good thing about using bits of rope, one can size everything to suit. Huh, and lots of the comments have some other good ideas.

Can you still splice the main brace

I'd love to be right in between the two types. Cruising, and making good time haha.

This is a brilliant idea! I'm drilling my paddle as a backup for everglades and blackbeard challenge asap!

Look at the shape of the tail fin on a Blackbird SR-22, it has the same wedge shape like the Sailrocket foil !

When I’m camping on an island beach and my 20 ft motor boat is out there by it’s lonesome two plough anchors at 45 degrees and the boat never goes anywhere overnight where as I’ve heard of so many not being there on radio

6-23-24 They got what they had to keep the You Tube and other income flowing. . They will probable sell iit in the next 13 months.

This is super educational

Spade anchors are the best in my experience from sailing on west coast of Scotland. Bought one to replace a Delta. Not cheap but very reliable, good at cutting through kelp

Just want generate some electricity from that wind powerful stuff

I just subscribed, what a fantastic educational packed into 3 1/2 minutes. Well done, and I didn't agonise over subscribing.............

awesome explanation...

Almost no airplane wings maintain laminar flow front to back. Turbulent flow is not the same thing as cavitation.

Excelente idea of using low tide to explain this… Very well done

Thank you. I've been a dinghy sailor all my life but at 62 I had to give up the dinghy and I bought my fist small keel boat. Docking is really not the same. I really struggled but I sort of thought the center point was key. thanks for confirming.

Scope is much more important than chain.

Excellent

Good summary…If you don't have engine current should do the job, or wind too. In case of wind against tide usually the tide is stronger thant wind… at any rate in this case it's not a good place to anchor, except in rivers… The best is still to have three anchors : to bow anchors plus a stern one. Thank you for posting. PS. This works with most anchors, old or new design.

This is exactly how we wound up with a 1988 Swan 59.

Living on my sailboat for the last few years. Currently anchored in La Paz. I see people always backing down on there anchors. Its really not needed unless you are looking at a small anchorage where scope swing is an issue. Drop your anchor into the wind. Only let out a 3 to 1 scope. Take your time. Don't dump all your chain on top of itself. Go mix a cocktail and celebrate you have arrived at your destination. Let the boat settle for bit and then let out the rest of the scope. It will set itself.

Try West Coast of Scotland sea weed!Not so easy and not much fun when you pull up your dragging anchor with a ball of weed in a rising wind!!

Bruche Anchors works about 8,5 of 10 times...I dont say more and you will found out the rest. CQR for example works 9,9 of 10 times.

I woke up early morning after a night out on Tellico Lake, TN., just to find the TVA raised the water level up to the point it lifted my two anchors off a shallow bottom. Boat drifted across the cove and nearly came to rest on rocks had they not caught where they did. Always leave enough rode to makeup for any could be backing up of water behind the dam.