On Friday 14 May 2004 1:14 pm in rec.boats JAXAshby wrote:


So, I ask of these people to tell us what the shock load is on a boat
jerking
up and down a three foot wave, its chain rode pulled tight. Compare the
"stretch" of that chain with the stretch of an appropriate mixed rode in
terms of orders of magnitude difference in shock loads.

What an asshole.
You obviously do not understand why you should pay out 4xdepth of chain.
A little understanding of force vectors then explains why the chain
cannot be pulled tight.

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