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• Photoday! I haven't been in here in months.
  • Waiting for fog to lift
  • Way Cool photo Tom
  • Blue Tarp
  • Starting to gather up the needed bits and pieces
    • All together
      • I think I have one of those motors in my basement.
        • Thanks, Hagar
      • Very nice. I wish I had that bronze chain pipe.
        • Yes, we carry all chain, Tom
          • Then you should have a nice easy retrieve.
            • We currently have a light duty, horizontal shaft, Simpson-Lawrwnce Seahorse manual windlass
              • Since I installed my electric windlass...
                • Outside of weight, the only other thing I can say about nylon, it's fast.
                  • No doubt, Tom
              • How big a holding tank did you fit up there?
                • I think Alden got it just right
          • Weight for chain
            • Interesting, Larry
        • Tom, do you have enough room on deck directly above your
          • Not really.
        • Oh what a timely conversation....
          • Sounds like a plan
            • 160 feet of chain is quite a bit for a 27 foot boat...
              • I assume you'd stay with 100ft chain
                • What do you carry on your "lightship?"
                  • 50' of 5/16" G40 + 225' of 5/8" brait
                    • BTW I never use my secondary
                      • I've only used mine, a 35lb HT Danforth and 10' chain, 3 or 4 times in 14 seasons.
                      • Yeah I have a back up Danforth also...
                        • I'm a big believer in keeping my
                          • Interesting thoughts... (the real anchor thread)
                            • If you're deploying without a windlass
                              • Also if you do add chain
                              • It looks as though only about 100' or so of the old rode
                                • Cool. Power wash 'em
                            • I think that if you hang the Danforth
                            • 15 feet of chain is a bit thin IMHO. I still
                    • Seems like
                    • Question... does the brait work in the windlass the same as three strand?
                      • Better, in my experience
                      • Usually a gypsy will accomodate both. As
                        • My windlass is too old to look up...
                          • I know that windless. I had one on my
                        • What I should probably do is get a bit of line and test the gypsy... that is what I did with the chain.
                      • too well!!
                        • Doesn't your windless have a chain stripper?
                          • Brait can slide too deeply into the groove below the chain "teeth" on the gypsy.
                            • If it's sliding down that far into the gypsy
                              • That is my fear... three strand seems to fit just right....
                        • It's looking good, Dan.
            • If you tried to anchor in any
              • Same in many New England anchorages
                • I can think of many more places also. Annapolis, Beaufort NC,
                • There are no anchorages in Southern California.
              • Steve.. thanks a bunch for the voice of experience.
          • We rarely use much more than 90' of chain
            • effectively being all chain is a good thing. The extra
              • Been there done that on bigger boats...
                • Me too on the 4'. But another good thing about chain, props can't cut it.