Anchor Assessories

[Dick]

In the 9/22/12 post, "Where are your bow chocks?", one of skip's pictures shows a neat little fixture for securing the anchor stem to the deck. Anyone know where I can get one? Gerry Hutchens said he does not stock that item.

[Shawn]

There are a bunch of different types of anchor locks available. I use one like this...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stainless-Steel-Anchor-Lock-/360645146264?pt=Boat_Parts_Accessories_Gear&hash=item53f8203698&vxp=mtr

Pretty sure I bought mine from that seller on ebay. They tend to list them often and you can get it cheap. West Marine and Defender sell them too.

Shawn

[Dick]

Shawn, So the anchor lock you have requires drilling a hole in the anchor stem?

[Shawn]

No, it fits through the same hole as the shackle your chain attaches to.

Shawn

[skip1930]

I used the 'all ready there' hole [which there are several] in the forward standing rigging fixture on my CP-19 that that my Harken '00' ferler pins to.

I just lined up the shank of the anchor, added a bit of slop, cyphered a little bit, marked it and drilled a hole through the anchor when the anchor looked like it was pulled back and securely positioned and pushed down onto the deck. The shank has to fit on the bow roller and the anchor's flukes need to be pressed onto/into the two stainless steel tails of the ss ring/arc spanning the roller.

Once the hole was marked and drilled a keeper pin with a lot of holes already drilled in was purchased from ACE Hardwire, a couple of fender washers, a thick rubber ring from the plumbing department to take up the slack between the anchor shank and the standing rigging fixture, some sort of a cotter pin that a lanyard can be tied to, and a nylon insert that slides tightly into the rubber ring and allows the perforated pin to tightly slide into. This eliminates some slop.

For those older anchor rollers that do not have an hour glass figure and are hard rubber, a 5 inch grinder and a couple minutes grinding a VEE into the center of the hard rubber will assist in holding the anchor shank in place. This prevents the anchor from sitting/running on the extreme sides of the roller.

Vola! Buy a few spares for the tool box just incase the keeper goes over the side in the event of a hasty anchor deployment. Check the picture for assembly hints.

skip.