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description: The mushroom anchor is suitable where the seabed is composed of silt or fine sand. Works great at holding boats in place on muddy bottoms.
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The mushroom anchor is suitable where the seabed is composed of silt or fine sand. It is shaped like an inverted mushroom, the head becoming buried in the silt.

Mushroom anchors work great at holding boats in place on muddy bottoms but not all that well on rocky or sandy bottoms.

![Mushroom anchor](https://21118949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/21118949/hubfs/courses/pcoc2021/images/mushroom-anchor-drawing.png?width=1100&height=451&name=mushroom-anchor-drawing.png)

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