Addendum to this tip: keep a small float/buoy in the locker or nearby to attach to this line, so you can come back to recover your anchor and chain when conditions improve. Someone told me this, and it crossed my mind (but I still haven't actually added the thin line or buoy), when I considered cutting our anchor loose this summer after it got fouled and we were stuck in a less than pleasant spot.
As for snubbers, after breaking two of them that night when the chain got fouled so it was almost vertical, the only thing that worked was about 50' of stretchy line led back to a cockpit winch to absorb the shock. We used some of this stretchy line last night and today as we are sitting at an exposed dock through a gale... even with 8 lines to the dock and lots of stretch, we still managed to pull a cleat off the dock! -- Shawn Wright [email protected] S/V Callisto, 1974 C&C 35 https://www.facebook.com/SVCallisto On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:51 AM Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Pro Tip: You may one day have to slip your anchor and escape some danger > in a real hurry. Tie about 20 feet of thin nylon line to the bitter end of > the chain and the other end to the boat someplace in the anchor locker. You > can slip the chain and cut the line quickly. > > > > > > *Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I* > > *www.dellabarba.com <http://www.dellabarba.com>* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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