You can always rely on a Manson Anchor

Keep your Family Safe while at Anchor

Our Story

Our story is a typical Kiwi tale of someone who took their passion, expertise and drive to create a world-class business. Fed up with unreliable imported anchor products, seasoned offshore sailor Kerry Mair decided to build his own anchor and built the very first Manson Plough anchor for his own boat, a Cavalier 39. The success of this venture gave him the drive to set up Manson Anchors and his core focus became establishing a business that built better anchors than imported models.

Manson Anchors has become the global leader in anchor manufacturing, and from the depths of New Zealand we bring you worry-free anchoring. Whether you are a pleasure boat skipper or superyacht captain, we have an anchor to suit your boat and on-water activity. We supply anchors for motorboats and sailing boats right through to racing craft, naval vessels and superyachts. In fact, we have the largest range of anchors in the world.

 

Each anchor is hand-crafted at our specialist facility in Auckland, New Zealand, ensuring best quality control at all stages of the design and build process. Anchors are available in either galvanised steel or hand-polished stainless steel.

Boating can be a real worry without safety, which is why everyone on our team is driven by designing and building the safest anchoring solution for you.

When you choose a Manson Anchor,  you are choosing an anchor from the company that makes anchors for the world’s leading shipyards, an anchor trusted by owners of superyacht; it’s a smart decision.

For some projects, Manson Anchors works in partnership with sister company Bowmaster. Bowmaster was developed in 2008 when Manson recognised shipyards needed assistance with anchoring deployment. From this grew a range of trusted deployment solutions, hull appendages and deck equipment.

Each anchor is hand-crafted at our specialist facility in Auckland, New Zealand, ensuring best quality control at all stages of the design and build process. Anchors are available in either galvanised steel or hand-polished stainless steel.

When you choose a Manson Anchor,  you are choosing an anchor from the company that also makes anchors for the world’s leading shipyards, an anchor trusted by owners of superyachts. It’s a smart decision. 

For some projects, Manson Anchors works in partnership with sister company Bowmaster. Bowmaster was developed in 2008 when Manson recognised shipyards needed assistance with anchoring deployment. From this grew a range of trusted deployment solutions, hull appendages and deck equipment.

MANSON ANCHORS

Why choose a Manson Anchor?

Global Leader

For nearly 50 years Manson Anchors has been keeping boaties safe across the world, ensuring their families have a good night’s sleep while anchoring in every condition imaginable. We are the desired anchor brand, chosen by serious boaters all over the globe; from Western Australian’s rugged coastlines to Florida and the Mediterranean.

Join the hundreds of thousands of skippers across the world, and choose an anchor from the global experts who know how to keep you safe.

World's Largest Range

Not all boats are equal, so Manson Anchors make anchors to suit every situation – from small boats through to superyachts.

Don’t settle for a standard anchor. Use our calculator to find the best anchor for your boat. We understand the unique challenges of anchoring and there will be an anchor in our range that will suit your needs perfectly.

We understand that, big vessel or small, the most important thing is building a reliable anchor.

Made in New Zealand

Our anchors are proudly crafted in New Zealand by Lloyd’s Register approved welders using certified Lloyd’s Register approved materials in a specialist facility under the highest level of quality control.

This means your anchor is not made cheaply in a developing country by a company who has little respect for quality, the environment, or more importantly, what it means to anchor safely. Our anchors are made by highly skilled craftsmen who build a safety product you can rely on. 

Trusted

We are trusted to make anchors for some of the best shipyards in the world who build extravagant superyachts and sophisticated defense vessels.

This means that you’re buying the same brand used on impressive superyachts and by the US Navy.

Simply put, you are choosing an anchor from the world‘s leading anchor brand.

Environmentally Conscious

Boating is only made possible by having a beautiful water playground to enjoy cruising, fishing, diving  and sailing. At Manson Anchors we are committed to playing our part in looking after this precious ecosystem.

Our workplace complies with strict environmental regulations ensuring our processes are tuned to be as clean as possible. Strict controls prevent hazardous waste dumping, pollution of the air, sea and protected ecosystems. These regulations include the techniques and chemicals used. Manson Anchors galvanizing contains low levels of lead. High levels of lead are often used in the galvanization of anchors by other companies as it makes the galvanized anchor look shinier. This amount of exposure can have metamorphic, neurological, and other developmental progressions on aquatic organisms.

So, what does this all mean? This means you are making a sustainable anchoring choice, choosing a brand that is committed to ensuring future generations will have the same idyllic boating memories that you do.

Lloyd’s Register Approved

We know that using cheap materials for a safety device could cost lives. Our anchors all have class society type approval which means the material used to build the anchors has been supplied with certificates proving it is from a Lloyd’s Register certified steel mill.

It also means the welders who fabricate the product are all individually Lloyd’s Register certified and undergo yearly inspections and testing on their performance. Our welding procedures have been scrutinized by the Naval Architects at Lloyd’s Register EMEA.

We manufacture both robust galvanized steel or exquisitely polished stainless steel anchors to all major classification societies.

Superyacht Certification

The classification classes we can build to are:

 

  • LR – Lloyd’s Register
  • ABS – American Bureau of Shipping
  • DNV GL – Det Norske Veritas
  • RINA
  • BV- Bureau Veritas

Lifetime Warranty

Our assembly techniques exceed all certification companies, and this means all Manson Anchors are given a lifetime warranty against breakage under normal use.

Damage by deformation or bending is not covered by this guarantee.

TIMELINE

Our History

  • 1972  Manson Anchors is founded by Kerry Manson Mair, a seasoned Kiwi offshore sailor who designed and built his own Plough anchor to withstand the harsh New Zealand boating conditions, as he wanted a better quality anchor than imported ones.
  • 1985  Manson Anchors, New Zealand’s largest anchor manufacturer began exports to Australia and the Pacific Rim
  • 1990  The Manson Plough recognised as the most popular anchor in Australasia
  • 2003  The Manson Supreme was launched
  • 2004  Winner of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Creative Design Award
  • 2008  Manson Anchors’ sister company, Bowmaster was created
  • 2011  Manson Boss was launched
  • Today  Manson Anchors supplies chandleries around the world with a full powerboat and sailing yacht anchor range and manufactures custom-made anchors for superyachts and military vessels.

Global Leaders in
Anchor Deployment

For the complete anchoring solution many of our customers choose to partner with our sister company Bowmaster. Bowmaster is recognised as the global leader in anchor deployment systems. We have an extensive record of satisfied clients and completed projects in the Military, Commercial, Superyacht, Power Boat and Sailing Yacht sectors. It pays to have experts like Bowmaster on your side.

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