Use Enough Rode When Anchoring When enough rode is out to ... The most common bottoms are sand, mud, clay and grass (or weed). Most of the popular anchor styles (Danforth, CQR, Delta, Spade, Bruce, ...

The Danforth anchor was dropped down into the outgoing current. The tide had just turned, so it was not yet really ripping. I payed out about 15 feet of chain and then about a hundred feet of line.