Proper rond anchor

OUR 'man from the Fens', Kelvin Alexander-Duggan, being both a sailor and inland boater, has some interesting comment about the rond anchor that was featured in narrowboatworld.

He writes—as to rond anchors, the fluke is curved, The one shown in Iain Powell piece is a poorly made fake. [Kelvin's photograph shows a genuine rond anchor.]

Not for piling

They are not designed to be attached to piling. The attached diagram below shows how it is deployed. The design is such that the more pull on the mooring line, results in the rond anchor digging in rather than pulling out like a normal mooring pin. To remove is easy, just pull the fluke up and away from the boat.