a 3 foot nylon snubber will stretch about an inch or two before it starts to
permanently deform. a thirty foot snubber will stretch about twelve inches
before permanently deforming.

In windy conditions where an all chain rode is pulled tight, wave action can
cause the boat to jerk solidly against the chain with a boat movement due to
waves of upwards of five feet or more. Under those conditions, your anchor is
coming loose or your deck chocks are breaking off.

NO body chains a boat to a dock and NObody chains a boat to a rock on shore.
Why then would anyone chain a boat to a rock under water?

Why? Because they are too weak and too old and too lazy to lift a 35# anchor.

Fact is, all chain WILL bust out an anchor -- or break deck chocks loose --
when the winds pick up and the waves start.



Hence why ones uses a snubber with an all chain rode....

-al-

Man your obnoxious.

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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Old men too weak to lift 100 feet of nylon rope plus an anchor insist on
all
chain rode -- claiming it is safer -- because chain fits through an
electric
windlass with less effort than tailing a rope on an electric windlass.

Also, people who are scared to death of the water think all chain is
somehow
"stronger" than rope and thus they want all chain to save themselves from
their
own mistakes.

Fact is, all chain WILL bust out an anchor -- or break deck chocks
loose --
when the winds pick up and the waves start.

all chain is for weak old men in motorboats with sticks and fraidy-cats
whowon't motor down the ICW without listening to Herb.

"R Lanni" wrote in message ...
Man your obnoxious.

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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Old men too weak to lift 100 feet of nylon rope plus an anchor insist on
all
chain rode -- claiming it is safer -- because chain fits through an
electric
windlass with less effort than tailing a rope on an electric windlass.

Also, people who are scared to death of the water think all chain is
somehow
"stronger" than rope and thus they want all chain to save themselves from
their
own mistakes.

Fact is, all chain WILL bust out an anchor -- or break deck chocks
loose --
when the winds pick up and the waves start.

all chain is for weak old men in motorboats with sticks and fraidy-cats
whowon't motor down the ICW without listening to Herb.

I have to disagree, Chain Rode serves a very important purpose,
espially in Sandy or Muddy Sea Floors. The intent of the Chain is to
keep the Anchor set, of course this can also be done with Weights on
the Rode. This has been the salvation of any Boat that went to Sea in
a Hurricane and Moored, rather than have the Surge pile thier vessel
up on the shore with all the remnants of the Marina.

I have to disagree, Chain Rode serves a very important purpose,
espially in Sandy or Muddy Sea Floors. The intent of the Chain is to
keep the Anchor set, of course this can also be done with Weights on
the Rode. This has been the salvation of any Boat that went to Sea in
a Hurricane and Moored, rather than have the Surge pile thier vessel
up on the shore with all the remnants of the Marina.

Sorry, but you are wrong. NObody chains a boat to a dock, and NObody chains a
boat to a rock onshore. The ONLY people who chain a boat to rock underwater do
so because they are too weak and too old to lift an anchor. An anchor chained
to a rock underwater WILL break out and/or break loose the deck chocks when the
wind picks up and the waves start. Everyone knows that but weak and lazy old
men.

Man your obnoxious.

Oh? Why is that? Because I can lift a 35# anchor?

My, my, my.