Field test · Posted by the MoorSafe team · · 3 min read
28 days on the bottom of Casco Bay
Two anchors, one muddy seabed, a lobster boat, and a diver. Why MoorSafe came up fully buried — and why that matters more than the breakout number.
We set both anchors on the same soft bottom on January 13 and left them alone for 28 days, until February 10. Then a diver went down before the pull. The traditional mushroom was partially buried with the stem exposed. The MoorSafe anchor was fully buried.
Breakout at 3:1 scope, read on a 4,000 lb digital indicator: 1,575 lb for the traditional anchor, 1,295 lb for MoorSafe. Comparable — and the deeper anchor keeps gaining as sediment consolidates above it. A mushroom that has stopped sinking has stopped improving.
The other thing the diver noted: no chain on the MoorSafe stem. Twenty-eight days of tide had wrapped nothing.
See the anchor and the full test results
Three bars turn the stem into a cone that significantly reduces the risk of chain wrap. Tested at Yale Cordage in Saco and for 28 days in Casco Bay. Made in Maine.