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Boyut Marine What makes “Ultra Anchor” special? Some sailors say that “the value of the boat can be measured by its anchor”. Some boaters believe that the vessel anchor is more important then its engine. Any boater who has had their families and friends lives tied to an anchor under storm conditions can verify these statements. Would you trust your families’ lives to your current anchor? So what constitutes the best anchor for all conditions? Our most known source of information for that question is books, our friends’ experiences or anchor tests conducted by magazines. Unfortunately, magazines generally only have the ability to test and compare anchors (usually on one bottom type – sand) for two performance features; 1. The setting ability of an anchor 2. The anchors holding power ratio However, there are many more circumstances that we encounter when deploying, setting and recovering anchors that are of similar importance in real world conditions. To best understand how a particular anchor operates and performs on the sea floor, you should fist research the design features and manufacturing techniques that aid or inhibit its performance. Below you can find what sort of characteristics an anchor should have and what would we say about Ultra in a list. Please, ask those questions to yourself about all other anchors that you know and compare your answers with Ultra. This way you could understand why and how different is the Ultra Anchor.

CHARACTERISTICS THAT AN ANCHOR SHOULD HAVE! 1. Does the anchor require experience to use? 2. Does the anchor instantly set on each occasion? 3. Are you required to set the anchor, or does it set independently? 4. Once set, does the anchor instantly generate its maximum holding power without shifting? 5. In a changing wind or tide conditions will the anchor release? 6. Could it be used as a bow anchor? Does it only hold on sand or could it perform enough at every sort of sea beds? 7. Does the anchor penetrate immediately? 8. Does the anchor have a self righting capability without having a...

ULTRA ANCHOR’S CHARACTER; 1. No, it does not require. It could be used with a little experience because; all deficiencies of other popular anchors were overcome. Ultra could tolerate a lot of mistakes taking place in anchoring. 2. Yes, if it is used in a proper way, it hold nearly at each attempt. It is mostly enough to pay attention on 2 simple rules to use Ultra in a proper way; a) To find the minimum scope ratio; please, multiply the depth which is measured from the bow roller by the Beaufort (wind speed) For Instance: Depth: 5m(From the bow roller to the sea bed) , Wind Speed: 6...

9. The weeds about 50-60cm long that we can see often are not a problem for Ultra. However, even rarely at some places we can see weeds about 2m long or even longer which could be defined as “cornfields”. For an anchor to supply a real holding power, it should penetrate to the routes of those weeds. Thus the anchor should smash those weeds with its own weight first then it should penetrate to their roots when you pull it. To smash that long weed, the anchor weight is more important then the anchor geometry. Based on our tests, there is not a single anchor including admiralty that can smash...

20. To transfer the weight to one part on Ultra, we used thin plates while composing it. Under this condition, it could be thought as its tip should be weak. Therefore, we used supporting parts from inside to the tip. 21. All materials used in technology have some resistance limits. If those limits are exceeded, materials come to grief. To lighten the Ultra shank, we especially did not design a thick shank. However, shank cross section by diffusing the load in balance could supply high breaking loads in spite of its thin and light design. Also this is also corrected by the truth that we did...