You need free fall. And long deep free fall. I installed Lofrans Airon in 2003, and a year later had to move it back because chain would pile up all the way to the top and clog. So I ended up drilling the pipe just forward of the bulkhead on my ’77 38’ Mk2. And still, over the years( I anchor a lot) we’ve grown to a procedure that with about 25’ of chain left either me or my wife go down and push the mountain of chain over before pulling remainder. I currently carry 100’ of 3/8” but in the past my primary was 250’ of 5/16”. Believe it or not 5/16” was clogging less. It got rusty so I had to part it out.
Petar Horvatic Sundowner 76 C&C 38MkII On the hard at Stanleys in Barrington From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jacob fuerst via CnC-List Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Cc: jacob fuerst Subject: Stus-List Windlass placement Currently I do not have a windlass on the boat. The anchor locker and lid takes up the entire bow beyond the vberth. In order to place the vertical rope to chain windlass on the deck requires placing it above the vberth and running a channel for the rode back into the locker. Additionally this would mean cutting into the liner inside. There are holes in the bulkhead where there appears to have been a shelf bolted inside the anchor locker but going only to that seems very weak. I'm thinking now of reinforcing the bulkhead and sort of glassing it into the sides and then bolting a frame to set the windlass on and it would be fully contained within the locker. Has anyone been through this or have suggestions or notes of caution? Jacob Fuerst '78 C&C 36 Ventura, CA 303-520-4669
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