An anchor construction for fishing and pleasure craft, especially those with a power anchor line winch, which includes a center swivel plate in a plane transverse to an anchor blade. The centerplate has a V-slot in which slides a clevis attached to an anchor line to effect release of a snagged anchor without moving the boat over or past the anchor. A stop lobe on the anchor blade cooperates with the center plate to limit relative motion.
An anchor with pivoted flukes and a track upon which an anchor line is slidably connected to the anchor has a pair of fluke drivers adjacent the flukes which produce a significant included angle of the flukes with respect to the bed of a body of water. This included angle of the flukes enables them to rapidly penetrate and set in a bed of a body of water even under hard pan bed conditions. Typically, the anchor sets into the bed of a body of water within ten feet of anchor movement relative to the bed.
