Soft Mud Anchors for $200 and Up

The XYZ, Bulwagga, HydroBubble, and Talon XT are top performers.

The Super Max Rigid emerges from the muck of our test site after testing.

Practical Sailor’s mud anchor review would not be complete without testing some of the more expensive and exotic designs on the market today. In this follow-up to February’s test of inexpensive anchors in soft mud, we look at a variety of products from faraway places like Australia and New Zealand, as well as a number of homegrown engineered steel and aluminum creations. Reader input and an editorial staff desire to perform an analysis under both nominal and extreme conditions had us testing at two significantly different scope lengths again. The short 3:1 scope test gave us a good indication of how an anchor would perform when set in an area…