Any Box Anchor users? Need advice
 

According to the website, the 'small' box anchor is good for offshore\cuddies up to 30' in length. I have a Formula 292, and am hoping to hear from others with simliar length\displacement offshore boats as to whether this is actually enough anchor for my boat before buying. I'll be anchoring in SF Bay, which has quite a bit of tide force and winds, so I want to assure this will give me enough hold. Since space on my boat is limited, I'd prefer to buy the small if it will work for me, but will go to the large is I have to.

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I have a 29 Fountain and use the large anchor. It's really your decision whether you want to possibly have to screw with re-setting the anchor over and over again or if you just want to set it and forget it. I would say buy the large anchor now and be done with it. They fold nice and flat so storage is pretty easy. There is another company that makes a similar anchor that you might want to look at. www.danamarineproducts.com

I only have a 21.5 Baja Hammer and I love it. I had a Danforth style previously and boated on the Mississippi and had trouble getting it to set. Had to let out a lot of rope. With the Box anchor I could anchor in heavy current and have 3 other boats tied up to me and it would not move. When it was time to leave you just had to pull up to it and it would come right up. It sets immediately and you don't have to run out a bunch of rope. They are on the pricey side, but I have never regreted getting it.

Which anchor do you have?

The small isn't really that small and its a heavy bastid. Nine times out of 10 it will set the first time, but I've had it come loose a few times and need to go step on it or re-set it. Still need a fair amount of rode out for it to set right.

I have the small Slide Anchor and could not be happier with it. Doesn't need as much rode as the Danforth to set or hold.

I have the small one it works great, never broke loose and always set fast. The only thing is that it is heavy.

Get the Large. Don't skimp on the anchor. It will cost you eventually one way or the other. When you upgrade boats, you can take the anchor with you.

Best anchor ever. I use the large on the 36 Outlaw and have had four other boats tied off to me.

They work GREAT.

Go with the large, bigger is always better.

I use a large box on a 38' sonic. It can get loose once in a while so I added some chain and it works even better.

We are a Box Anchor dealer and can give you a great price if interested.

Please let me know. Currently retail is $ 149.00 Small and
$ 179.00 Large.

Email me at [email protected] and we will do a bit better for you or free shipping.

Kirk

I watched 4 boats mill around in a circle for 30 minutes some time back trying to set Danforths in a river before a local radar shootout, trying to begin a big raft up. I got fed up with waiting and dropped my Large Box anchor over the side and set in about 30 seconds. It held 6 boats in a ~5 mph current, plus a breeze, in a soft bottom. By the time the other boats got rafted up to me, they eventually got their Danforths into the mud, but none of them actually held. The single Large Box kept us planted all day.

Remember, it's not just your boat that you have to hold. It's all of them. It never fails that 1/2 the folks that want to raft you... "Oh, I don't have an anchor."

Don't get me started on fenders and docklines. I still want my $250 Oakleys back due to someone else's piss poor equipment.

How do they work in rock? I can never get my anchor to hold.

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I use a large for our 353. I carry it in the port side compartment. No problems. It comes with a thick vinyl pouch-no scratches. Better too much than to little in the anchor department!!