Draft of anchoring presentation

[thinwater]

Your experience is so different from mine--high latitudes vs. Chesapeake Bay--I simple accept the experience. I liked it.

As a 40+ year rock climber, though, I do question the use of cams. In my experience, if exposed to any oscillating load they either walk into the crack and become irremovable or walk out. I doubt any experienced climber would be comfortable with a cam for that sort of anchor. I would be much happier with firmly-set nuts (BD Stoppers, for example), but only in some arraignment that prevented oscillating loads (2 set at an angle perhaps).

Chafe protection over the rock edges is worth mention too. Much worse than anything on the boat, some real knives out there.

Having set many thousands of rock anchors, I've seen many problems.

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Overall, very informative. Thanks for sharing.

[estarzinger]

^^

Please tell me more about what you see as the best rock climbing gear and practice here. I am not that knowledgeable about it . . . .

How strong are cams and nuts? I presume at least equal to 1/2" nylon line?

Mostly in shore ties there is redundancy so one anchor failure is not immediately catastrophic. Given that can you describe a 'minimum' and 'optimal' anchor placement/design that you would consider sufficient.

[Mantus Anchors]

It looks great!
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