Shallow Water Anchor: Pole, Pin or Power Pole
In three feet of water, a conventional anchor is more trouble than it is worth. There is not enough depth …
Anchor & Docking
Anchors by bottom type, rode and chain, fenders, dock lines and boat hooks, sized to your boat instead of guessed at.
How to Dock a Boat Without an Audience Cringing
There is a particular silence that falls over a fuel dock when somebody comes in too fast. Everyone stops talking, …
Fluke Anchor: Danforth-Style Picks and Sizing
If you own a bowrider, a center console or an aluminum fishing boat, there is a very good chance the …
Dock Lines: Diameter, Length and How Many
Dock lines are the cheapest part of the boat and the part most likely to be a collection of mismatched …
Box Anchor: Fast Set for Sandbars and Rafting
Sandbar days expose the limits of a conventional anchor fast. You are in four feet of water with boats rafted …
Best Boat Fenders: Size, Shape and Placement
Everybody calls them bumpers. The catalog calls them fenders, and the difference is not just vocabulary: a bumper is fixed …
Boat Fender Size Chart: Diameter per Boat Length
Fender listings are a wall of numbers. A pair of dimensions, a boat length range that may or may not …
Boat Anchor Types: What Holds in Mud, Sand, Rock
Walk down the anchor aisle and you see half a dozen shapes that all claim to hold your boat. A …
Best Boat Anchor: Match It to Your Bottom Type
Almost every anchor complaint comes down to the same afternoon. You drop the hook off a sandbar, the boat swings, …
Anchor Winch and Windlass: Worth the Deck Space
Hauling an anchor by hand is fine at 25 and character building at 55. It is also the part of …
Anchor Rope and Rode: Length, Size and Chain
Most anchors that get blamed for dragging were never given a chance. The hook was fine, the bottom was fine, …