Rafael, I do my best not to be judgmental of my fellow captains . . . but a 40-pound CQR on a 50-ton 58-foot trawler blows my mind. C'mon! OF COURSE you dragged in windy weather. For comparison, my 58-ton (100,000 lb.) 51-foot trawler yacht carries a 110-lb. Delta and 400 feet of 3/8-inch HT chain, and we sleep very well at anchor. I can recall dragging only once in hundreds of nights of anchoring over the past four years. Before this boat, my 42-foot, 37,000 lb. Grand Banks trawler carried a Delta 55-lb. anchor for a dozen years with pretty much the same results. Maybe if I'd had a Rocna I'd never have dragged at all! ;-) By my estimate, a 55-pound Rocna--no matter how good it is--is about half the weight you need. And after you get a big, hunkin' anchor, a good, reliable power windlass for dealing with the ground tackle needs to be next on your list. Seriously. One guy's opinion. --Milt Baker, Nordhavn 47 Bluewater, Hampton, VA P.S. I'd love to see Subic Bay again . . . when I was last there in the 1970s on a Navy ship, the U.S. Navy owned the place and the bar girls seemed to own the adjacent town of Olongapo. Besides the delicious San Miguel, what I remember most is the beautiful sunsets over the mountains to the west--some of the prettiest I've ever seen! Rafael wrote: Our boat is 58' by 15', 50 tons gross, steel, full displacement. It dragged the CQR practically every other day of the charter. To be fair, a 40-lb CQR was probably undersized to begin with for our size of boat. But our first anchor was a 100-lb Navy, and it used to drag that too, sometimes. Applying the "2 lb per ft of boat +10%" rule would give us a 130-lb anchor. What a nightmare it would be to try and retrieve that manually. In foul weather. Trying a 55-lb Rocna on our boat should be an interesting test of whether the design has really moved technology forward.