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Cannibal
Bob wrote:
Wilbur Hubbard (wishing I were about forty years younger) I dont want to waste my time finding your original post. However, the one I recall that cought my eye was your statment that anchor rode should be 3 strand nylon. Here I completly disagree in one aspect. Yes, 3 strand is okay for day anchors in winds below 20 k how ever in conditions where "extream" loads are experinced nylon double braid is best. Why? It wont hockle and part do to the hockle. Yes double braid has less stretch but if you ballance the correct working load, length, and chain/line ratio it will counter the reduced stratch. Your ground tackle In a survival situation should be double braid not 3 strand. And i dont give a **** what Ocean Navigator or Cruising WOrld mag you quote. Recreational sailing advice/best practices is driven by marketing stratiges to get you to buy a product or erronious tradition. Do a review of the approperate case studies and youll find that rodes part in three typical places: 1) Chafe point where line gets fair lead through a closed chock on deck. ( this can be cured) 2) standing part of line due to hockle (this can be cured with double braid) 3) eye splice/shackle connection to chain. (this can be cured) This aint briain surgury its jsut plain riggin. BOb BOb, Would a swivel shackle help prevent 3 braid hockle? -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |