Brent65 wrote:Howard, like this?
Hey Brent you have the set up close to as I designed it. I am sure there must be better solutions out there but this one I like. It has proven itself.
1. You only need one hawsepipe per anchor. I mount it adjacent to the 4" screw in port. Hawsepipes can be plastic, galvanized, bronze, stainless, etc. Mine are both bronze.
2. I suggest the hinged lid (anchor mount) over your lazarette hatch, easy to make, light weight and practical. Mine is painted, with anchor chocks and tie downs for two nested anchors. It is covered with an outdoor carpet type material I cut from a door mat.
3. Pre mark your anchor rode with a sew though of black course thread or indelible marker or paint. Have your anchor stowed aft and where the rode goes through the captive bow chock is where you make the mark.
Make a second mark on the rode (red) forward of the black mark when the anchor is up off the bottom and hanging in a sail away position, meaning just below the stem/bottom. This may be very handy to know sometime in a tight spot when you have to:
a. Sail your anchor to a new location. Sometimes sailing off anchor is a convenience, I do it alot.
b. Sail off anchor with no time to actually haul it all the way in because of a lee shore, rocks, whatever prevents you from a more leisurely haul up and stow.
4.
Important- Get a 12 to 15 foot 1/4" or 3/16" braided line, tie a bowline in one end around the anchor rode that lies between the anchor and the captive bow chock. Tie off the other end to a small cleat near or on bulkhead 5.
When you deploy your anchor the bowline retrieve line goes out and hangs on the anchor line draped around the rode between the bow chock and the deep or is perhaps just under water.
When you want to retrieve your anchor pull it up through the bow chock to the black mark on the rode then with the retrieve line pull the anchor aft to the cockpit where you are standing just aft of the cuddy cabin, lift it up and into the footwell or onto the cockpit sole, feed the anchor line into the large mouth open canvas bag you have on the seat, then chain and anchor, push it aft and sail away ready to drop anchor around the next corner. Later you can feed rode into hawsepipe or maybe not until the end of your cruise.
Here is a photo of the cut outs.
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In this photo you can see the fwd set up for my forward anchor. I use a cabin side mount with a cam cleat with fairlead and a 2nd fairlead deck mounted leading the rode past the fwd cabin decorative wings.
In addition I have bronze half round mounted on the aft edge of the cabin side so I can stand up pulling the anchor in and not worry about scarring the cabin edge
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and in this photo you can see the first step I take when I know I am approaching an anchoring situation. There is a vertically mounted bronze shackle in the photo with both directions of anchor rode running through it and captured to keep them from washing overboard while sailing. I cant deploy unless I reach down and release this very spoecialized shackle, there are numerous solutions to accomplish the same thing.
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