>but a cheap $70-100 home pressure washer seems like the hot setup. Go ahead and use fresh water from your potable system That might be fine for boaters who marina hop and can refill their water systems with ease, although these folks probably rarely need to wash down their anchor and rode. But here in the PNW, fresh water is not always easy to come by, particularly in some of the islands later in the summer. And if you're going to be anchoring out a lot with longer periods between visits to harbors and marinas it makes no sense to waste your fresh water supply cleaning mud off an anchor and rode. Plus you have to have AC for the pressure washer, which some boats don't have at all, or they have to start a generator, or maybe they don't have an inverter with the capacity to run it. Plus you have to store it somewhere, which on some boats is not as easy as on others. ____________________ C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" (grp) Bellingham, Washington