This section is designed to provide an overview of Coppins products, their uses and sizes available.

We do recommend you talk to us about your specific requirements. Our Para Sea Anchors are used all over the world and deliver high performance results that reflect our ongoing commitment to research and development.

Designed for: Commercial fishing industry – tough and cost effective.

Application: PARAFISH Para Anchors are used where it is too deep for a ground anchor.

Parafish Specific uses:

• Squid Jigging or Cuttle Fishing
• Long Lining / Gill Nets
• Drift fishing
• Pole Fishing/ Trawler Fishing
• Life saving / riding out storms
• Cost and time saving

Size range: 20 Parafish sizes available, ranging from 2.5m in diameter up to the large 60-metre diameter model. See our Parafish size chart.

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Designed for: Commercial fishing industry.

Application: SQUID PARAFISH Anchors are used where it is too deep for a ground anchor.

Squid Parafish Specific uses:

• Squid jigging or cuttle fishing
• Riding out storms
• Cost / time saving
• Control drift

Size range: 31 Squid Parafish sizes available, ranging from 7.5m in diameter up to the extremely large 66-metre diameter model. See our Squid Parafish size chart.

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Designed for: Recreational fishermen, charter fishing boats, canoes, rowing boats, sports boats, runabouts, weather boats, centreboard yachts, motor launches

Application: A small parachute sea anchor designed for safety and comfort in a variety of circumstances as listed immediately below.

Limpet specific uses:

• drift fishermen in deep water use the Limpet to hold the boat comfortably onto wind and wave, slowing movement of the boat
• reduce sea sickness
• holding steady in case of breakdowns
• holding steady while transferring crew from one boat to another
• for centre boarders caught in rough conditions
• divers can use the Limpet to hold the boat while waiting for hose underwater to surface.

Size range: Four Limpet models available.

Limpet Features: Important safety device. Comes as a complete kit ready to use. Simple and quick to deploy. Designed to give maximum drift control. No having to assemble before use or disassemble after use. Simple to stow away in its own stowage float bag.

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Designed for: Multi-hulls and mono-hulls

Application: Designed for storm conditions the Seaclaw is also superb for helping a vessel negotiate problematic bars and assisting with steering when the rudder fails.

SeaClaw Specific uses:

• Stabilizes the speed of multi hulls and mono hulls during running or broad reaching,
• reducing the risk of broaching, nose diving or pitch poling while greatly improving steering,
• control and directional stability.

Size range: 6 Seaclaw models for boats under 28ft long up to 100 ft.

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Designed for: Serious off-shore sailing and recreational boating - the STORMFIGHTER has proven it can withstand the ultimate storm!

Application: A self-contained system - essential equipment for anyone serious about survival and comfort – i.e. when riding out a storm, holding on station overnight, or in case of boat repairs in the open sea.

StormFighter Specific uses:

• Life saving / riding out storms - the Coppins StormFighter has already been through the ultimate storm of very steep approximately 100ft breaking waves, winds of between 130 and 140 knots, and gusting to 154 knots

Charlie Blanchet "Without the Sea Anchor I doubt very much that we would have survived. The waves were so large and breaking, the boat wouldn't have really pitchpoled, it would have been turned upside down and we'd have rolled over I don't know how many times." Charlie Blanchet, survivor of "the Ultimate Storm" with a Coppins sea anchor, as reported in 'Boating New Zealand' magazine, November 2001. Wind speed was recorded at up to 154 knots with wave heights of up to 100 feet.

Size range: 15 STORMFIGHTER sizes available, ranging from 2.5m in diameter up to 24-metre diameter model for larger 48 metre length boats. See our STORMFIGHTER size chart.

STORMFIGHTER Features: Unbeatable for strength, dependability, compactness and ease of handling. Offers a number of significant safety advantages over other brands of Para Anchors for example; i.e. comes prepacked as a single portable kit, ready to deploy. This kit contains all the required components from a specially designed swivel cone to built in floats.

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