Anchor chain

[jamisjockey]

Went with 5/16'ths, 18' of it, which is about 3/4 the length of my boat. Not much scientific in it, just needed a hunk of chain and estimated the length by walking it on the floor of boaters world. Also trying to go back to a smaller anchor, the one I'm using barely fits in my anchorwell.

[csaulnie]

I had 6 feet of 5/16" and had problems hooking up in a current. I upgraded to 18 feet of 5/16" and never had a problem on my Key West 2300WA.

I like the Home Depot suggestion.

[AdamT]

I've got 200' of 3/8". Most times I don't even need the anchor.

[Fishinspot]

Anchor ball is a must! If you haven't used one try it, you will like it.

[mattttt25]

Boat came with 8' and I had trouble a few times last season. Bought 22' more this year, guy gave me 23'. So I'm going in with 31'. If I have trouble holding, I'll pull anchor and fish somewhere else.

[Mersiles]

Okay I'll look at some 5/16" or the next size up. I'm leaning towards 20' of chain. Right now, though, its only got about 4'. I rarely have a problem with it holding, but sometimes it doesn't set easy.

Most of the time I'm in water 40' or less, with probably 70% of my anchored time in less than 20'. I'd like to be able to anchor in deeper water with ease.

I just got the 30-50% notice from boater's world, so I'm off to there this weekend to get chain, a new backup anchor, and some other goodies.....

I should also mention that the original anchor that I had was a "dual purpose" POS . It fit in the locker of the Mako very easily but one side of the fluke set the spades at a higher degree than the other (something like 45 deg. vs 30 deg). I don't know about you but I couldn't say which side of the fluke would land in 10 feet of water much less a hundred. Changing the anchor likely had as much to do with my set rate as the chain. Good news is I have not issues setting in sand now.