Fx-7 Anchor
Ilse Marseau
For over three decades, the much lighter Fortress Anchor has out-performed substantially heavier steel anchors in holding power tests conducted all around the world. In the US Navy tests, not only did the Fortress out-perform heavier steel anchors, they were also able to withstand pull loads that averaged over 200x their own weight.
The anchors have been designed to be easily disassembled for compact storage, or as a spare and/or a storm anchor. All Fortress Anchors are precision-machined for sharpness and quick penetration into common sea bottoms, which ensures faster setting-performance.
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Thousands of real world tests are your assurance of performance, quality and value.
Fortress weighs only half as much as heavier steel anchors and yet outperforms them all.
The Fortress design does not depend upon weight to provide world class performance.
All this adds up to the best value in anchoring safety and convenience.
Precision machined from an aluminium alloy that is as strong as steel but only half the weight, the Fortress is easy to manage, rustproof, sharper than heavy, dull edged steel and will set faster and penetrate deeper into common sea bottoms for incredible holding power.
Fortress Anchors come with a Lifetime Parts Replacement Warranty.
If an anchor part becomes bent or damaged, then please contact Fortress for an immediate replacement.
Faster Setting:
A faster setting anchor means peace of mind regardless of the situation. The Fortress anchor is precision made in aluminium-magnesium alloy with sharper flukes that set faster in common seabeds.
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Years of research and development, high-tech materials and manufacturing and thousands of real world tests are your assurance of performance, quality, and value. Fortress weighs only half as much as heavier steel anchors and yet outperforms them all.
Having storm anchors aboard can make the difference between safety and disaster. The Stowaway boat anchor storage bag holds everything you need to deploy your Fortress or Guardian anchor quickly. No more searching for wrenches, shackles or chain. With the Stowaway system, it's ""in the bag!""
The Stowaway boat anchor storage bags are built to last in the rugged marine environment. The bag closure as well as the straps (which serve as convenient carrying handles) are high strength, extra wide Velcro. Inside each bag are pouches to hold the correct size wrenches (included) and even a spare fluke clip, bolt and nut (also included). Easy to understand diagrams are sewn into the bag to take you through anchor assembly and bag-packing procedures.
In test after test, from coast to coast and from around the world, no anchor in history has been called The World's Best Anchor by more boaters and respected marine experts than Fortress and for good reason.
All Fortress Anchors feature Mud Palms designed to help the anchor set faster in any type of sea bottom. Mud Palms create a lift to the crown of the anchor, causing the flukes to point more directly to the seabed. This helps the anchor set faster in any bottom.
High-tech aluminium magnesium alloy
Tough anodised finish
Adjustable flute angles
Disassembles for easy storage
Lifetime parts replacement warranty
Approved by American Bureau of shipping
Used by U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
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Whether used as a primary anchor or conveniently-stowed backup, Fortress Marine Anchors are well-known for their exceptional holding capability. Now, the company is offering two of its most popular models in convenient, Complete Anchoring Systems that include chain, a shackle and 25% more rope than the competition for safer sets and anchoring in deeper water.
Fortress anchors are constructed using a high-tensile, corrosion-resistant, aluminum magnesium alloy that is precision- machined into
interlocking components with no welds to weaken the metal. This results in a lighter, easy to handle anchor with superior holding power.
They are precision-machined for sharpness and quick penetration into common sea bottoms, which insures faster setting performance.
Superior Warranty
Walter Cronkite died at age 92 on July 17, 2009. Mr. Cronkite was the anchorman and managing editor of \"The CBS Evening News\" for 18 years until 1981. He was among the first celebrity anchormen along with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.
The former anchorman hated to see himself on camera. \"I cringe when I see myself,\" Mr. Cronkite said in a 1993 interview in The Times. He was sitting in shorts and a sun-bleached plaid shirt in his vacation house overlooking the bay on Martha's Vineyard. \"I don't feel I look that good. I get fat, sloppy. My suits don't fit that well. When I do interviews, my questions don't have the arrowlike quality of a Mike Wallace.\"
On the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Mr. Cronkite briefly lost his composure in announcing that the president had been pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Taking off his black-framed glasses and wiping away a tear, he registered the emotions of millions. It was an uncharacteristically personal note from a newsman who was uncomfortable expressing opinion.
In 1968 he visited Vietnam and returned to do a rare special program on the war. He called the conflict a stalemate and advocated a negotiated peace. President Lyndon B. Johnson watched the broadcast, Mr. Cronkite wrote in his 1996 memoir, \"A Reporter's Life,\" quoting a description of the scene by Bill Moyers, then a Johnson aide.
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was born on Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of Walter Leland Cronkite Sr., a dentist, and the former Helen Lena Fritsche. His ancestors were settlers of New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony that became New York. As a boy, he peddled magazines door to door and hawked newspapers. As a teenager, after the family had moved to Houston, he got a job with The Houston Post as a copy boy and cub reporter, inspired to go into the news business by a high school journalism teacher.
In 1943, Edward R. Murrow asked Mr. Cronkite to join his wartime broadcast team in CBS's Moscow bureau. In \"The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism\" (1996), Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson wrote that Murrow was astounded when Mr. Cronkite rejected his $125-a-week job offer and decided to stay with United Press for $92 a week.
That year Mr. Cronkite was one of eight journalists selected for an Army Air Forces training program that took them on a bombing mission to Germany aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses. After covering the Nuremberg war-crimes trials and then reporting from Moscow from 1946 to 1948, he again left print journalism to become the Washington correspondent for a dozen Midwestern radio stations. In 1950 Murrow successfully recruited him for CBS.
Mr. Cronkite remained modest, all too approachably human. But that did not stop him from putting his familiar qualities promptly to use after retirement. He never completely disappeared from the country's television screens since he stopped doing the \"CBS Evening News.\" What he did do, however, was a far cry from guiding the nation, live, through its periods of crisis. After he left CBS, he did things like guide PBS's annual broadcasts of the New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. Once he even conducted the Hochund Deutchmeister Band in a rendition of \"Stars and Stripes Forever.\"
Mr. Cronkite perhaps faced a dilemma common only to very famous people -- how to stay in the game and remain active even after the glory days were over. At the age of 76, he hit on a solution, which was to become busier than ever. And the reason he was in such demand, according to those who were after his services, was that there was nobody else quite so reassuring as Mr. Cronkite, and quite as much of a draw.
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