Does anyone have any experience of using high tensile g70 chain and trading down to a smaller guage? From what I have read on www.morganscloud.com etc. 8mm x g70 is as strong as 10mm x g40 which means that either we could carry more chain or carry less weight. I guess it comes at a cost (don 't know how much) but is there another snag? Obviously we would have to change the gypsy too.

Simon

Hi Alex, Agree completely. With regards to kellets/sentinels there is one reason to carry one. In squirrelly anchoring situations where you have 2 anchors out and one is primarily of nylon , I always use a kellet. This is not so much to decrease the angle of attack, anchor to sea bottom, but rather to keep the nylon rode from having the opportunity to foul on the keel, rudder or prop in these squirrelly situations.
My best, Dick Stevenson, s/v Alchemy