Genius or Fool? – danDid you ever do something that you thought might be a brilliant idea or stupid blunder but you couldn’t tell at the time? That’s where I’m at right now. I ordered a BFA (big frigging anchor) and in a fit of upsizing ended up with a Rocna 33, a 73 lb monster of an anchor to replace our ordinarily sized 44 lb Delta.
I had started out intending to up size just a bit as I usually do with anchors. I originally ordered a Rocna 25 (55 lbs) from West Marine. But as I thought about it, I wondered; it is really big enough? It’s plenty big by the manufacture’s specifications but what about real world, awful conditions; don’t want that anchor to drag scenarios? Thoughts of past times where I dragged and had spent hours motoring into a storm in order to keep from ending up on a dreaded lee shore. So I called West Marine and they graciously agreed to upgrade my order to the Rocna 33.
Well that bad boy arrived just after Christmas and what a beast it is. The FedEx guy didn’t even bother to get it to the house, he just left it out on my front lawn. As I struggled to drag the bastard up on my porch I wondered if may have gone a little overboard with in my anchor sizing zeal. And I’m still wondering; will it fit on the bow, will the bow ride 3” lower and unbalance the boat, will the windlass even be able to lift it? Time will tell.
Other news:
An angel crash-landed in my back yard, barely missing my house. Good thing as I don’t think my homeowners covers that sort of thing. She seems to have survived the plummet ok. Turns out she had a few too many shots of mescal followed by too much tequila on New Years eve. Me, I just blew chunks, no snow art involved.
A recent view from Gypsy's port side
