Coastal 290 Anchor Help

[cjacobsen]

Hi there. New member. New Wellcraft owner.

I've been reconditioning a 2003 Coastal and it had a Danforth 1300 with a bent shank. I live in Southern California and anchor typically in sand with some kelp and rocks at some outer islands. 25' of water exposed to open swell. I've had a 30' Pursuit for a few years with a plow and it had held well through swells and wind changes while I am off the boat for hours at a time surfing. I'd love to stick with the plow but had read about some difficulties due to the pulpit on the coastal.

I've read on a forum that the pulpit was designed around the danforth - so stick with it. And I've also heard the pulpuit was designed for a plow? In searching pretty much every photo I can online I see mostly Danforths, but also a few plows on bows of 290s. Yesterday, I picked up a Rocna 10 and gave it a try but it seemed the shank was too short and also too wide to really fit and therefore it was hanging too low.

Has anyone here gone through this journey? If I need to go to the danforth I shall, but I also did a stroll through my marina and looked at everyone's anchor here and the plow was #1 followed by a bruce type followed by a danforth. So, would love to find a plow that fits snugly.

Two anchors that seem to potentially have a longer and thinner shank - at least from my observation of online pictures - are the Mantis 1 and the Hurricane- however they have that circular shaft for if they land upside down and I don't know if they would interfere with the pulpit. And I've never seen either of these in person. I have a nearby West Marine so have only seen their selection of Rocna's and Lewmars, etc that weren't on the bow of a vessel.

Thanks for any help.

-christian

[CptBill]

Seams like the solution to the problem would be to find someone with the anchor you thinking about and ask if you can see if it will fit correctly, though I will admit that might be a little harder than it sounds

[cjacobsen]

I've gone with a 25lb mantus. Boat has been in a yard getting work done but will see how it goes once she's back and I can play around with this. The mantus seemed to have the longest shaft to match the danforth that was with the boat. Still a number of inches shorter but it was longer than the delta anchors I had tried fitting in there.