I agree in general with when/how the use of a kellet can be helpful, as Jim Healy describes. As I read his comments, I thought of my own choices in that regard. Frankly, I have never used nor seen either kellet or double anchor used in all my Navy/commercial/personal experience. Far too much effort would be required to arrange these rigs on larger vessels, which are staffed for around the clock operations allowing them to just steam away from dubious anchoring situations and await dawn to enter port or whatever it is that come next. Complicated and heavy rigs are not something I want to deal with aboard the Calypso. In my private-life experience aboard our boat, where I am the one and only deck crew, I have been shy about putting anything in the water that could not be easily and quickly retrieved. I have been in a couple of situations (not always on my own boat) where I was awfully glad that was the case. It is so easy to do serious cosmetic damage to my bow with dangling anchors or weights being retrieved in choppy waters, and a quick hoist from waterline to roller avoids that for me. The other option of course is to buoy the bitter end of the rode and return later to claim it. That is a risk and possibly a real pain if you could otherwise steam off on the next lag of your journey rather than waiting around or returning from miles away. I have a nice bronze or brass saddle device which looks exactly like the sketch of the device holding the bag of chain a this site http://www.anchorbuddy.co.nz/, but it has never been in the water. I like the idea of a bag of chain, if I were to ever want a kellet, but I bet that bag is going to have to be purpose-made. About all the weight I'd want to heft up there over the bow would be 40 pounds, and I am not even sure that would be sufficient weight. With dual bow rollers and a split chain locker, I find it far more reassuring to just dump a second anchor and rode in the water than to have the added complications of kellet/double anchors on one rode. When I want to do this, I use my fiber rode to anchor to normal scope and then dump my second anchor and a hundred feet or so of chain underfoot after we are settled into the first anchor. Rich Gano Calypso (GB42 Hull # 295) Panama City area, FL