Dave Gerr - Boat Mechanical Systems Handbook-How to Design, Install, and Recognize Proper Systems in Boats

attached to a strong bow eye installed about

9 to 12 inches (23 to 30 cm) or so above the

waterline. This is the line you see in the bow-

on photo of Imaginein Figure 24-12—the

line leading from the eye at the bow up to the

hawsehole on deck.

Here’s what you need to install:

1 .Get a length of three-strand nylon line

about 3 times as long as the height of

the freeboard at the boat’s bow. The line

should be the same size or one standard

size smaller than the anchor rode

recommended earlier (not the larger

size for a rope-chain splice).

2 .Install it on the bow eye with a chain

shackle and an eye splice and with a

stainless steel thimble in the splice.

3 .On the other end, install an eye splice

and a stainless steel thimble and a chain

claw. Alternatively, leave the free end

with no fitting. The free end, in either

case, is for attachment to the chain after

anchoring. Note that a chain claw is not

a chain hook. The proper form of chain

claw for this application is known as a

devil’s claw. (See the photo of the devil’s

claw used on deck in Figure 23-14.)

Devil’s claws can be hard to

locate these days. One source is

http://www.ropeinc.com (Figure 24-22), which

supplies full snubbing pendants with

PART SEVEN: ANCHORING SYSTEMS

Figure 24-20. Chain stopper

Figure 24-21. Close-up view of chain

stopper

Figure 24-19.
Close-up view of
chain lockers