Painting the Anchor

[Dsanduril]

We used to paint our anchors bright yellow. Living aboard full time on the hook paint used to last about two years when prepped well. Galvanising was for corrosion, paint was so we could see the anchor easily and we liked it. Here in SE Alaska we haven't seen water clear enough to view the anchor in years, and also haven't bothered with paint.

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Originally Posted by chrisr

going off on a small tangent (after all this is CF...it's what we do) : why would you bother wasting time on an old CQR ?

invest the money in a modern anchor that will actually hold your boat (ie SARCA or rocna or mantus or several others - there is a thousand threads here on which one is best and why)

you will sleep a lot easier if you do

if in doubt, look at some of the hours of testing video done by panope

cheers,

well, if you look at the testing by Panope, the CQR rates ahead of the Rocna, and is equal to most of the modern anchors in holding power in "good" bottoms and fails only in the "marginal" (cobble/rock and very soft mud) bottoms. But don't let the testing convince you, keep the bias