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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 08:17:13 EST
Hi Pete,
I always use a bridle to keep the load on the boat and not the windlass and to prevent chain slap during the night. The two lines extend about 4-6 feet from the deck to a hook in the anchor chain taking up the load. I'm curious as to how a bridle keeps the boat swinging around the anchorage? You're not referring to wind shifts where the boat will swing around the anchor? Are you refering to the action of the waves?
dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: pete judd [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:52 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Re: Anchor snubber
On Murphy's Lawyer, I have use a bridle for a couple
of reasons, One to take the load off the anchor
windless, and two, to keep the boat from swinging
aroung the anchorage. I use 60 feet of 1/2 inch nylon
with a chain hook at the center, I have spliced eyes
into the ends of the line so they can be led through
the haws pipes and then to the sampson post. I often
anchor in fairly deep water here in the pacific north
west, and carry 600 feet of chain backed by 200 feet
of nylon and a 45 pound cqr. Even though Murphy
weighs in at around 32000 pounds, I don't think that
there would be much strech in the 1/2 inch nylon.
Just my 2 cents.
Pete
--- giddiap <> wrote:
>
> The "Ohana" cruises the Pacific northwest, and is a
> 30' sloop. We use a 35#
> cqr with 20' chain and nylon rode, and the windlass
> is the mast winch. We .........
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