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From: Joe Engel (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 11:50:09 EDT
Hi Robin:
This is an interesting concept. I have a couple of questions though.
How do you make the connection of your snubber to the ring low at the
bow? Or is the snubber line permanently connected and then brought up
to the deck level somehow? I would not want to have to leave the boat
and dinghy around or? to connect the snubber, especially in a rough
anchorage.
12 feet of 3/4" line does not sound like much of a snubber to me. A 30
ton boat is pretty heavy so I could be wrong, but given that the purpose
of a snubber is to act as a shock absorber, I would think that more
length of a smaller diameter line would be more effective.
Like most of the folks mentioned on this list, we deliberately use a
smaller (1/2" nylon) x 30 ft. leg-length bridle (60 ft total) with our
5/16 BBB all chain rode to provide the necessary shock absorption when
expecting a blow.
But when anchoring normally, in very deep water where our 250 feet of
chain will not suffice to reach 5:1, we just use a single 1/2" nylon
line to add another 150 feet or so.
We figure if we can get all 250 feet of 5/16 chain and another 100 feet
of nylon out there, we have some super-soft shock absorption because the
weight of that long catenary of the chain never brings the nylon line
taught. Essentially all the nylon line does is lift and lower the end
of the chain.
Joe Engel
40 ft Tollycraft
Portland, OR
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Roberts [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:22 AM
To:
Subject: TWL: Re: Anchor snubber
On my 30-ton boat, I use a 3/4" nylon snubber about 12' long attached
with hi-tensile shackles to the bow ring and to a devil's claw (a type
of chain hook that won't collapse a link under severe strain). It's
pretty easy to set and deploy - especially since I'm at the helm and my
dear husband is the one out there on the bow! I would recommend about 7
tucks for the eye splices instead of the 5 that I usually use for eyes,
given the additional strain.
Robin Roberts
M/V 'Adventures' DeFever 49 Pilothouse
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