Weve previously included the ratio you describe, and found these to be only marginally useful. Our selection is based on the manufacturers recommendations for a specific boat and conditions.
The damned fool was, of course, the renowned British mathematician, G.I. I can only paraphrase the old salt: The human race took millennia to develop a plow design that could be pulled easily through the earth, and some damned fool made an anchor of it. Francis Herreshoffs wonderful book The Compleat Cruiser. The poor performance of the CQR-type anchors brings to mind the comment of the cruising sailor quoted in L. Using this ratio, the Fortress FX-11 is the clear winner at 61, the runner up is the less expensive Danforth Standard at 28, and your starred Lewmar Claw is relatively poor at 19. This suggests that some metric like the ratio of holding power to weight provides a better rating than simple holding power. So there is an obvious trade between anchor weight and holding power.
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They make manual recovery more difficult and, when stowed near the stem, both increase displacement and reduce pitch frequency.
Heavy anchors are, however, otherwise undesirable. Holding power can generally be increased by deploying a heavier anchor. Herewith some comments on your useful experiments concerning anchor holding power in soft mud as described in Anchors for Muck, for Under 200 Bucks, February 2006.
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