Rocna or similar anchor for 45 Viking

Hey Bert, I don’t see no picture….
What’s up wit dat?

Looks like a bent Danforth to me …
What’d you do hit the dock while pulling in and hook a piling ?!?

Actually I am, I have a little Norwegian blood, by my boat is a Fancy Pacemaker.

You need to rally your Richard Bertram crew ! Where are they ?!? They are quite on YFs , lately.

I think you guys need to get back in your own yards. This is Viking territory.

I’m a “ What I could afford at the time man “ Stumbled upon my Ocean, given what was going on with me / life/ bread$$ at the time I bought it.. Lol.
Could have very well been a Viking , the few I looked at were in very bad shape.
Dollars and sense made my choice.

Okay , you can stay, but that other guy's outta here

LM I see your dilemma. Yep, I roll right off the top end of my SS ancor pulpit with hook on and bridle lines to port and strbd cleats. If you have skinnier lines you might be able to keep the hook on the chain and bring it up through the slot with the chain but not looking good.

You don't want the bridle routing through the pulpit in anyway, it puts load on it that's not designed to handle.
Set your anchor, reach around the pulpit and attach the hook, each half goes to respective port and starboard cleats. Then pay out additional rode till bridle Carey's the load. .

Yes it is the issue of getting the arms of the bridle back to the bow cleats after attaching the chain hook to the chain first then letting it down thru the slot to the water. I did not give that enough thought before I bought the bridle especially with the size of the medium bridle and shackle attached to the chain hook. Mantus pictures did not do it justice as to the size and heavy duty assembly. I really don’t think I need that heavy duty bridle for the type and location of the anchoring we do. Usually fairly well protected anchorages, no tidal currents, and I really don’t like to anchor out if I think there is a chance of a big blow. And I do my best to avoid surprises.
Letting it down over the roller on the end of a pulpit would just involve holding on to the arms and then bringing them back to the cleats after letting the hook on the chain into the water.

I had one of those Ideal windlasses on my boat when I bought it. Couldn’t get a rope/chain wheel for it and it had issues with parts difficult to find. I ditched it for a Maxwell. Once Maxwell got the rope/chain wheel right it has been performing without issue for near 10 years now (knock wood). I routinely anchor in 300’+ for bottom fishing so the Maxwell gets a work out. I use a 75# CQR style knock off cheap anchor. Works well for me in many different type bottom conditions. Keep in mind my 54’ is quite a bit heavier than what you guys are taking about. How do you have similar size boats that are so much lighter? I’m like 70k#’s or so.

Agreed. I was wondering if the lines and hook could come up through the slot in the GRP bow sprit but no way when I look at the picture again.

I am wondering how the 44 Vulcan has worked out for you so far???

I recently finished a full restoration of a 50 Viking Motor Yacht (which is the 44 with a cockpit) and I too have been struggling with anchors that fit the pulpit. The Rocna has great reviews but I decided against it because the roll bar would rub up against my new paint job.

I anchored this boat for the first time a couple of weeks ago using a no name 44 lb delta style anchor in only 7 ft of water. The wind kicked up, spun the boat 180 degrees and it pulled right out of the bottom. Needless to say that turd came off the boat right away. Next I'll try an actual Lewmar brand Delta 44 lb an see how that works. But, the Lewmar Delta 44 lb has a pretty large shank and it's not an easy fit to get it up into the roller. I am including photos of the no name Delta along side the Lewmar Delta and you can see a big difference in the shank sizes.

Thank you everyone this thread has been very helpful to read.

Same issue with the 44 Delta, shank issues, I ended up throwing it in my mill and carving off an inch or so of the shank.
Can't say whether it hurt the balance as I've yet to use it.

The 44 Vulcan has done well so far but it's biggest test to date has been holding a 4 boat raft up totading about 110,000 lbs in about 15 knots of wind in a good holding bottom. Had maybe 75 feet of 5/16" G4 chain out in maybe 10 feet of water. Spun with the tide as the wind speed dropped and no problem resetting itself. So not an extreme test but it's definitely not easy to drag. I'll check back in if run into something more extreme. Most of the upper Chesapeake has good holding bottom so I'll need a really strong pop up thunder storm to give it a real test.

That is a decent test. Love the tidal swing reset with a raft up!