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New generation of anchors
Wayne.B wrote in
: On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:44:33 -0500, Geoff Schultz wrote: I will state that the CQR has also held very reliably once set properly. I've ever ridden out a 72 kt storm at anchor in Honduras that bent the anchor roller like a pretzel. The winds blew 40-50 kts for 20+ minutes and the storm lasted about 2 hours in total. When I looked at my instruments later, I saw a max wind speed of 72 kts! See http://www.geoffschultz.org/2002_Sai...n/P6040586.jpg for a photo. Ouch. We use a "hook line" on the chain to take the strain off the anchor pulpit and roller. The hook line also acts as a shock absorber since it is 3-strand nylon with a bit of stretch to it. The hook line runs through a deck chock (hawse pipe on our boat), and then to a cleat. I do too, but I removed it when I was attempting to let more chain out for more scope. Unfortunately I had forgotten (having just awoken in the dark with lightening crashing down and sideways rain) that the anchor chain was wrapped around the gypsy and then going to a cleat in the anchor locker. Once I had released the snubber line, there was no way to unhook the chain to increase the scope and/or re-attach the snubber. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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New generation of anchors
"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message .. . Wayne.B wrote in : On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:44:33 -0500, Geoff Schultz wrote: I will state that the CQR has also held very reliably once set properly. I've ever ridden out a 72 kt storm at anchor in Honduras that bent the anchor roller like a pretzel. The winds blew 40-50 kts for 20+ minutes and the storm lasted about 2 hours in total. When I looked at my instruments later, I saw a max wind speed of 72 kts! See http://www.geoffschultz.org/2002_Sai...n/P6040586.jpg for a photo. Ouch. We use a "hook line" on the chain to take the strain off the anchor pulpit and roller. The hook line also acts as a shock absorber since it is 3-strand nylon with a bit of stretch to it. The hook line runs through a deck chock (hawse pipe on our boat), and then to a cleat. I do too, but I removed it when I was attempting to let more chain out for more scope. Unfortunately I had forgotten (having just awoken in the dark with lightening crashing down and sideways rain) that the anchor chain was wrapped around the gypsy and then going to a cleat in the anchor locker. Once I had released the snubber line, there was no way to unhook the chain to increase the scope and/or re-attach the snubber. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org This may not be the ideal set up. My boat was purchased with 125 feet of chain and 250 of three stands nylon rope to fit the electric windlass. At first, in shallow water I would only use the chain and let it rest on the bow roller, Last summer, when the wind got strong and repeatedly veered from one direction to the other during the night the chain was making a terrible noise when hitting the side plate of the bow roller. After that I started to let all the chain out and use the rope to tie the boat to the (bow) mooring cleat after passing through the chock. |
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