Danforth Anchor On Bow Roller w/ Anchor Pin Suggestion.

[Craig Weis]

So the perforated pin from ACE hardware is welded to the grey fender washer. Inserted through the hole in the bow sprit tang, and through the drilled hole in the anchor shank. For ease of use a second fender washer is on the other side of the bow sprit tang.  Then a rubber spacer is glued to another fender washer that the anchor is skinned up to and all this is finished off with the last washer and the hair pin with lanyard looped around it.

So it's pull the pin. Slide the anchor shank out of the pin. Lower the anchor into the water. Motor back wards to 'sink' the anchor into the bottom and wait to see if your boat is held in place. I usually play out all 150 foot of rode attached to my vinyl covered chain that stays put on the deck in a nice oval loop. So you don't loose the anchor line or have someone run off with it I tie the 150 foot of line to the mast's compression post. That 16" x 16" hole there? Another big hatch for access under the vee birth. The factory foam under the vee birth kooks like this and has a few navigation light wires running around. I had to cut and grind away a little bit of foam to make a nice flat area to drill two 2 inch holes through the bottom just in front of the keel for the Raymarine Bi Data unit. Left is speedo with a plug so you can pop out the paddle wheel and clean out the zebra muscles. The right is the through the hull depth sounder head. Do NOT cut the extra wire that came attached to these two units. Just coil them up and tape them. That white stuff at the bottom of the picture IS the poured cement keel. And I TIG ed up this aluminum bronze with epoxied in ss cross piece of pipe to make Sampson post for extra vertical room for dock lines. Used the same holes and bolts as the cleat.

I had a thought this morning. Very rare.
Steve's boat Wind Rover has a non-coated anchor chain and that thing rolls all over the fore deck, scuffing up stuff and just is a pain to look at...

WHY NOT PULL THE CHAIN INTO A PLASTIC PIECE OF TUBE OR CLEAR HOSE? Warm the hose up in a kettle of water first with a wire in the hose to help pull the chain through it. That will keep it nailed down in place and nice. After few warming cycles on deck the hose will retain a nice oval shape me thinks.

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[nies]

Skip, great idea, I will be following your instructions, thanks...........Phil

[Craig Weis]

Here is the trouble one can encounter when the anchor chain goes overboard and the anchor rode wraps around the prop shaft tearing out the stuffing box.

Now for those of you who watched the near sinking of a 26 foot sailboat on a U-Tube video realize it all started when the anchor's floppy non-coated 5 foot of chain went over the side in ruff weather and wrapped the anchor's nylon three strand line rode around the running prop shaft ripping out the stuffing box, flooding the boat which resulted in the crew of two and the dog being removed from the sinking boat and the female Coast Guard Captain manning the pumps while the sailboat in trouble was towed to the slings at harbor. I think near Little Current, Ontario, Canada.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZZYHx_IdCc

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[Craig Weis]

I ran across this and put it on my 'Facebook' under 'skip weis' I can't figure out how to post it here.  Anybody?
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Maine Sail
Canadian Sailcraft 36T
Casco Bay, ME

 ---->>>           Anchor Setting Comparison (Video)

With all the threads on anchoring this week I thought it a good time to do another comparison. This time I took my 35 CQR and my 33 Rocna to a hard sand intertidal area to compare how they act while being set.

I apologize in advance for the lack of audio on the video. I tried to put some music behind it but YouTube scrubbed it for copyright issues after it took 3.5 hours to upload.... Live & learn.. Who knew you could not use Bela Fleck in the back ground of an anchor setting video. Oh well I'll have to try something else..

Oh and sorry for the misspelling in the last frame. I really do suck at video making..

Both anchors were set up exactly the same on the same exact hard sand only inches from one another so the densities could be as close to identical as one could hope for. There is no trickery here just actual performance under the same identical situations.
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Casco Bay, Maine
Canadian Sailcraft 36T
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[Salty19]

Skip, thanks for the pics.  I'm readying my 19XL now for this using a 9lb Danforth.  Will use a similar setup but probably with a shackle/clevis (same thing?)  with a lossless key pin and safety line tied to the bowsprit so the shackle does not get lost.  We'll see how it works out.

As for chain, I like the idea of the nylon coating to keep the chain from sliding around and slipping off the deck.  Did you do that yourself or buy the chain already coated?  I wonder if that stuff to dip tools into (to form a rubberized grip of sorts) will work in this application??? Placing hose over it seems kind of cheesy to me.

Also I noticed we have different bow rollers.  My '98 XL looks to be some sort of polycarbonate plastic. Looks and feels like roller skating wheels to me.  Your's is bronze, correct?  I wonder why there is a difference? Not sure if mine is factory standard but I have no reason to believe otherwise.