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dmpilc
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Initially Posted - 02/11/2009 : 10:23:03

I just saw this pic on an ebay listing for a C-30 at the Long Beach Marine Institute. I like the way someone set up the anchor so it could be retrieved from the cockpit. Can't tell for sure, but they may be able to deploy it without leaving the cockpit as well. Anybody out there on the west coast thinking about moving to a C-30 might also want to check this one out.

DavidP
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PO of 1984 C-25 SK/TR #4142 "Recess"
Percy Priest Yacht Club, Hamilton Creek Marina, Nashville, TN

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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 11:13:40

There's gotta be an awful lotta line back in the cockpit. If you're anchoring in 10 feet of water, with a 7:1 scope, you need 70+ feet of line! I'd rather go forward and assure that the anchor chain and rode are clear, and get a good feel for the initial "bite" when setting the anchor. Sometimes less is more!

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 11:46:32

I agree. Another pic showed it coiled up on the stern pulpit. Actually, there would be two lines, the anchor line and the retrieving line.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 12:41:09

Even worse, 7x1 scope in 10' of water wants more like 80' of rode (assuming 4' freeboard at the bow). Here's how I drop and hoist my anchor from the helm...

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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 15:56:48

I agree, that's why I said 70 PLUS feet of line.

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SEAN
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 19:01:53

stop showing off dave :D ..nice set up even the chocks are a good size

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sweetcraft
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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 21:07:40

Dave, that's your picnic anchor, where is your storm anchor? I have two anchors just in case with a small bow roller where I can use the mast halyard winch. Don't forget the bitter end.

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Response Posted - 02/11/2009 : 21:40:01

Ya, it's just a 22# Delta... There's a Fortress in a cockpit locker. The bitter end for the Delta rode has a monkey-fist down inside the chain locker--it can't get through the hole to the windlass. When I'm on the hook overnight, I pull the rode back from the roller and cleat it, as you can sorta see in my signature.

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SEAN
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 04:55:05

yea looks good !!

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 07:49:41

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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 17:59:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by SEAN
 stop showing off dave :D ..nice set up even the chocks are a good size
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Dave's boat is beautiful

THREAD HIJACK WARNING!!! Subject: Chocks

I might have mentioned this a few hundred times before, but I am NOT a fan of chocks. I see lotsa boats with them, but have learned through reading and experience that they are more of a contributor to chafe on docklines than anything else other than a sharp hacksaw. So many boats of our size (C25 to our C34 and larger) have chocks, but on our boat we lead the lines directly from the cleats over the fiberglass to the dock cleats which, as standard on most Catalinas, are near the gunwale. If I was concerned about chafe on the fiberglass I'd install rub strakes below the line. I feel it's cleaner, and avoids the potential for chafe against the chocks. Some I've seen have nice bow cleats near the gunwale, but install a fancy Sampson post in the center and add chocks. Yuck! Just my thoughts.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 21:03:34

Good point Stu--actually I agree, and generally my dock-lines just go directly from the cleats (along-side the windlass) over the rub-rail to the dock cleats. In two years, no dock lines have shown any wear from that configuration. That picture was taken before the suspected arrival of a tropical storm, when I had doubled up the lines (as you can see on the port side) and wanted some to be pulling parallel to the cleats, rather than at about a 45 degree angle. The chocks do that--in fact they substantially reduce the pull on the cleats when the line goes through them on an angle like that. I intended to pick up some tubing and add it to lines going through chocks for chafe protection, but hadn't done it.

When I cleat the anchor rode, I've run it through the chocks to keep it away from the roller as the boat swings... That might not be the best idea--the bottom of the roller might be less of a chafe threat--but if I don't do that, the rode will likely slide up and into the chock anyway (as the bow swings away from that side).

BTW, I've always wondered why all new chocks I've seen have squared corners where the line runs through, rather than rounded surfaces. Seems kinda dumb.

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 02/12/2009 21:17:39

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