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tiller
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Initially Posted - 09/30/2002 : 21:32:31

Just bought 1986 Catalina 25. Please advise as to how one is suppose to tie off the anchor line. There is an anchor locker in the bow, but one would think there should be an eye bolt to tie of the line. Suggestions would be helpful.

g.a.richardson@att.net

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 09/30/2002 : 21:40:54

I mounted a small u-bolt in the aft sidewall of the anchor locker (with the nuts in the v-berth area). Of course, it is not meant to hold the boat at anchor--only to prevent accidental loss. My DPO just tied the end to a base on the pulpit.

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/01/2002 : 00:50:53

I haven't used the anchor a lot, but when I did I tied it to a deck cleat, and the bitter end around the mast. I went out with a guy on his express 27, he dropped his bitter end down a hole behind his mast to a ring in the keel used to lift the boat for dry sailing. is that cool or what. The boat is about 1/3 less the weight of my fin keel.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 10/01/2002 : 10:36:59

'tiller',

You're right about attaching the bitter end of the anchor rode to the boat. I agree with Dave Bristle's suggestion. Add a 1/4" or larger eye-bolt or U-bolt somewhere convenient in the anchor locker and back it up with fender washers. Since my anchor lines have spliced eyes w/thimbles at both ends, I added a few feet of 1/4" or 5/16" line tied from the thimble to something in the locker.

When I went to do this, I noticed that one of my stem fitting bolts was extra long. Instead of buying a U-bolt (because I'm cheap and lazy<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>), I added a second fender washer and nut to the long stem bolt, and tied the middle of the short piece of small line around the original nut, under that second washer. I tied each end of the small line to the bitter end of one of the anchor rodes using a bowline. This makes it quick and convenient to completely disconnect an anchor from the boat if I need to, while greatly reducing the risk of doing so accidently.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

I also cut a notch in the forward edge of my anchor locker hatch cover so the hatch can close correctly without resting on the rode (while at anchor for instance). The cover is unlikely to damage the rode, but if a person were to accidently step on the cover with the rode pinched, doing so might damage the thin lip of the cover, or its hinges.

-- Leon Sisson

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jm
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Response Posted - 10/01/2002 : 10:45:48

Tie a bow line (or any other knot that leaves a loop) approximately 6 or 7 feet from the bitter end of the anchor rope. Use both bow cleats to create a triangle formed from the loop-knot you just made, up to the port cleat, across the anchor locker cover/lid to the starboard cleat, and then back to the loop knot on the anchor rope. Attach the bitter end to the bow-line (I've spliced in a 5/8" eye snap hook to the bitter end so that it can be removed and installed quickly and freely.) The bow line knot prevents the triangle from becoming a slip knot, and the load is equally spread across both cleats and the shackle. Use a single clove hitch around each cleat to prevent chafe.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 10/01/2002 : 11:32:29

I almost never need to anchor on the lake (we have convenient mooring balls) and when I'm RC boat I use the Club's anchor, so my anchor rests under the V-berth (gets the excess weight down low!) However, my anchor locker does have a thru-bolted U-bolt to hold the bitter end and a slot under the forward edge of the lid to accomodate the rode when the anchor is deployed. The bitter end of every rode should be firmly attached in the locker itself or one day it will disappear over the bow...<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>
Derek

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