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

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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

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