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From: Peter Gelinas (no email)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 16:47:06 EDT
Oh boy I love it .....
Let's start a thread on the weight of anchor chain, how much it weights in
water, and what kind of protection that gives us in a wave / wind situation.
And whether we use a snubber for more than snubbing and whether we shouldn't
have 40 ft of 3/4" 3 strand nylon as a snubber.
I'll start us off by stating that anchor weight has absolutely no bearing on
whether a boat will stay put or not! ... and that a 50 lbs CQR is better
than a 1000 lbs weight if it were torpedo shaped. And that 200 ft of 1/2"
chain attached to a 12,000 lbs boat will straighten out and be as ridgid as
an iron bar with a force 8 wind.
(now we'll see the fur fly!) :-)
Peter
>From: "Philip J. Rosch" <>
>Reply-To: <>
>To: <>
>Subject: RE: lv-ab: RE: T&T: Anchor Rode Marking
>Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:01:16 -1000
>
>Another technique that doesn't require marking is to simply look up the
>rate
>in feet/second at which your windlass pays out chain. I have an Ideal that
>pays out electrically as well as hauls in. The pay-out rate is constant
>because there is effectively no load on it.
>
>I eyeball the angle on the catenary which works well when you anchor over
>300 times per year and pay out a big loop of chain before the snubber to
>act
>as a kellet. My chain (G4 5/16 HT) is 1.16 pounds per foot.
>
> Regards....
>
>Phil Rosch
>Old Harbor Consulting
>M/V Curmudgeon MT-44TC
>Currently "aground" in Waikiki Hawaii
>
>
>
>
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