I don't know how much rode everyone is carrying, but I carry a 9 pound Delta and about the same weight Fortress, and each has a rode of 20' of 1/4" chain and 150' of 3/8" nylon and it all goes in a small crate like container that is about half the size of a regular milk crate. I used to carry a 3rd anchor....a 15 pound navy type, with chain and rode, and after two or three years of never having used anything but the Delta (in the 6 years of my stewardship, the Fortress has never been wet), I looked at the extra weight of a 3rd anchor and took it out. I finally realized these are not 10 ton boats anchored in an area exposed to 200 miles of fetch from the North Sea. And while I've thought about it, I don't carry a lunch hook either. On a bigger boat, a 9 pound delta is a lunch hook. Howard M17, #278 Audasea