Gene,
I'm not too familiar with windlasses. How hands free are they? If you
had remote control in the helm station, would you still have to go out on
the foredeck to secure the anchor? In other words, could you just have it
set up so you could drop anchor and later raise it or does someone still
have to assist on the foredeck?
Paul

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:52:18 GMT, "John Kenison"
wrote:

I own an Arima 19' Sea Ranger (walk around cabin) which is a good boat in
many respects but it has an anchor locker that is WAY too small to hold a
useful anchor. The boat has an anchor roller on the bow, but I am looking
for a one that I can use to store a good sized Fortress type anchor over
the
bow. I have looked at some rollers that seem like they are supposed to
do
this, but they only come with a clip FORWARD of the anchor roller. How is
the shank of the anchor secured so the anchor will remain in place? Do
people rely on securing the chain to a hook in the anchor locker or on
the
deck behind the roller?

I was surprised at the number of different type of anchors available, I
have
always used a Fortress that is about 2 sizes larger than recommended for
the
boat and have never been let down.



My solution to this is to use a bungee cord to pull the shank of the
anchor aft and down against the roller and, thus, up against the
"clip" attached to the assembly forward of the roller. This keeps
things tight, even in a rough sea.

I have a picture of this on my web page, but it isn't very clear....
I'll try to take a post a better shot....

http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/Caver..._Assembled.htm



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