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Does anyone have any experience of actually using the Mantus Dinghy Anchor? I ask because I am currently advising a new owner on fitting out his GP14 for cruising.
https://jimmygreen.com/Anchors/78618-mantus-stainless-steel-dinghy-anchor
https://www.thewetworks.co.uk/products/mantus
It looks like a smaller clone of the Rocna and Manson Supreme, and weight for weight I would therefore expect that it might have a similarly impressive performance – provided of course that the design gets the angles and the balance of weight right. If the website is to believed, indeed it does. However when it first appeared, in 2019, the only size offered was 0.9 kg, and I question whether that is large enough for a GP14.
But on looking it up again today I see that there are now more suppliers available, and a range of larger sizes.
Normally for a GP14 I would think in terms of 2 kg for a working anchor, or 4 kg for a storm anchor, provided one is using adequate warp and a length of chain between warp and anchor. So the Mantus choice of 1.1 kg seems a little light, and the 3.6 kg seems larger and heavier than one needs for normal use, although very reasonable for severe conditions.
Has anyone actually used one; and if so what views do you have of it?
Thanks,
Oliver -
Many thanks to all who have responded, across several forums.
A member of one of the other forums sent me a link to a most impressive video of a practical test on the Mantus Dinghy Anchor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Zh-MrmwaA
That apart, my enquiry was very specific to this one particular anchor, not about anchors or anchoring technique more generally. Many correspondents on other forums offered other observations about anchoring more generally, much of it valid but not what was actually asked; however that may well have all been very relevant and interesting so some of our wider readers, so I thank them for broadening the topic.
The context is that many years ago I developed a PowerPoint Presentation on anchor types for a Seamanship Course that I was running at the time, and more recently I updated that for the Advanced Cruiser Training Course that I developed for this Class Association; and I have sent that to the new GP14 owner whom I am currently advising. Most of the mainstream anchors are covered in that presentation, but at the time of writing the Mantus Dinghy Anchor had only just appeared on the scene; so I was now asking for people’s experience of actually using it.
Oliver
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