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Steve.. thanks a bunch for the voice of experience.
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() Sounds just about right... I was thinking along those lines... and you just hammered the concept home. I have the Bruce and it has served well... the rode is shot though, and time for replacement. I wanted more chain than the PO, and your numbers are along the lines of what I was thinking.
Fair winds.
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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.
- Very nice. I wish I had that bronze chain pipe.
- Yes, we carry all chain, Tom
- Tom, do you have enough room on deck directly above your
- 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
- Seems like
- Question... does the brait work in the windlass the same as three strand?
- 50' of 5/16" G40 + 225' of 5/8" brait
- What do you carry on your "lightship?"
- I assume you'd stay with 100ft chain
- If you tried to anchor in any
- Same in many New England anchorages
- Steve.. thanks a bunch for the voice of experience.
- 160 feet of chain is quite a bit for a 27 foot boat...
- We rarely use much more than 90' of chain
- Sounds like a plan
- Yes, we carry all chain, Tom
- I think I have one of those motors in my basement.
- All together
- Waiting for fog to lift
