Awhile back I posed the question about Fortress anchors for my 260 here.
I ended up getting the fortress FX-7 for a deal on E-bay
The length of the shank (A on the image) was 24 inches. And as was true to my concern(and others experience from the previous thread) It was a pain to get the anchor in with 150' of rode and 10' of chain. I kept marring the gel coat trying to get it in. As you can sort of see here.
I came up with a solution that worked for me.
It was simple. All i did was tape off the area I was going to cut. I then traced a small plate from my kitchen that had the right diameter and used a cutting blade on my Dremel tool to cut out the tracing. It turns my Dremel was the perfect size to get into the locker. Then I sanded the cut edges and voila. My anchor now fits with less struggle.
