I don’t know about kite anchors, but the two posts about the history of Danforth and Northill anchors are essentially correct. Both were developed in the 1930s as the first lightweight alternatives to Old Fashioned “Kedge" anchors and to the common but inefficient navy “Stockless" anchors which are still used in large ships because they will fit easily into hawsepipes. Danforths and copies of them are probably the most common anchors found on boats today. Danforths are notorious for popping loose from the bottom when the direction of pull is changed, as with a tide current reversal. Northill anchors are efficient but uncommon today (although I carry one as a spare on my boat). Here’s a good reference site: http://anchors.synthasite.com <http://anchors.synthasite.com/> — 73 de Tom K3ORC

The drawings I saw showed a plate along the shank that nearly mirrored the angle and size of the flukes. They were used for the Mulberry dockworks on D Day. Apparently many were abandoned during training because they couldn’t dig them out. On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:23 AM Thomas Dove via Trawlers-and-Trawlering < trawlers@lists.trawlering.com> wrote: > I don’t know about kite anchors, but the two posts about the history of > Danforth and Northill anchors are essentially correct. Both were developed > in the 1930s as the first lightweight alternatives to Old Fashioned “Kedge" > anchors and to the common but inefficient/ <http://anchors.synthasite.com> . -- Tom M Theobald Anchored Payson AZ

I have one of the stainless PBY anchors and it has served me well. I have had other smaller Northill anchors where only the stock rotated for storage. Big fan. On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:42 AM Tom Theobald <tommtheobald@gmail.com> wrote: > The drawings I saw showed a plate along the shank that nearly mirrored the > angle and size of the flukes. > They were used for the Mulberry dockworks on D Day. Apparently many were > abandoned during training because they couldn’t dig them out. > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:23 AM Thomas Dove via Trawlers-and-Trawlering < > trawlers@lists.trawlering.com> wrote: > > > I don’t know about kite anchors, but the two posts about the history of > > Danforth and Northill anchors are essentially correct. Both were > developed > > in the 1930s as the first lightweight alternatives to Old Fashioned > “Kedge" > > anchors and to the common but inefficient/ < > http://anchors.synthasite.com> > > . > > -- > Tom M Theobald > Anchored Payson AZ > > To access the T&T List archives, go to > https://lists.trawlering.com/empathy/list/trawlers.lists.trawlering.com > To unsubscribe, send email to trawlers-leave@lists.trawlering.com with > nothing in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions. > Unauthorized use is prohibited.