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Friends who circumnavigated their one-off steel sailboat of about 60,000 lbs
displacement have an FX-85 storm anchor. On more than one occasion, they
deployed it prior to a blow and it buried so deeply they thought they'd never be
able to retrieve it; it took hours to do so. During one of these retrieval
efforts, my friend dove on it and said it was completely buried; a good six feet
below the bottom.
Seahorse, fresh from her Horn-rounding, came to me with an FX-125 lashed down
on the coachroof. It was never deployed during that passage, and I hope I
never need it; I certainly wouldn't use it for a lunch hook!
Good sailing,
John
"Seahorse"
lying Essex, NY
"I've spent most of my money on women and sailing -- the rest, I've just
wasted."
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