Quick Guide to Different Types of Anchors - Pros and cons and uses.

Step-by-step video guide on the most common boat anchors. This short beginner's guide summarises the most popular anchors along with their pros and cons and the type of bottom they are most suited for - It's an invaluable guide to help you choose the correct anchor for your boat.

The video includes simple explanations of the following;

- Parts of an anchor
- The anchor system, scope, rode and warp
- Danforth and Fluke anchors
- Plow (Plough) CQR and Delta Anchors
- Claw and Bruce Anchors
- Grapnel anchors
- Mushroom anchors

Each section covers the type of bottom the anchor is most suited for and also which types of bottom the anchors don't work so well on. It also includes a brief list of pros and cons of each anchor.

[Misteribel]

Interesting that you first list all pros and cons and then, again, list all pros and cons. Maybe it helps learners to hear everything twice. Your info on the CQR is incorrect though, they hold very badly in weed and grass, and in mud they're useless. You say they reset, but in practice that rarely happens. They usually don't even set the first time.

The real problem is that with any wind above 5bft you'll drift or break free. Three weeks ago, on a boat with a sizeable CQR, the boat drifted 200m in sandy grass bottom and 4bft winds, just luck prevented us hitting the rocks. The Bruce is like a CQR, but worse. Delta is comparatively better. The most common anchors nowadays are Rocna, Mantus, Ultra, Delta, at least on sailing boats. Smallish motor boats often have a modern Bruce. You also furor the stock anchor, so used by many fisher men.

[nunienadal]

By shingles, do you mean shale, like in lake erie?