Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.
Anchor rode stowage
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Figment
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Anchor rode stowage
Perhaps I'm just easily impressed, but I think this is brilliant!
Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.
Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.
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Re: Anchor rode stowage
If only my Lofrans electric windlass just had a PTO I could drive the reel as the windlass hauled in the rode. :-)
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Re: Anchor rode stowage
That is an interesting idea.
Hmmm, I just feed mine through after I have hauled the anchor and all onto the deck. Do you really have to pull it down from below?Figment wrote: Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.
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Re: Anchor rode stowage
I recognize that picture.
I think it was a Block Island 40. Was you window shopping, Figment?
(confession: did window shop Block Island 40s recently. That plus Mercer 44s.)
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I think it was a Block Island 40. Was you window shopping, Figment?
(confession: did window shop Block Island 40s recently. That plus Mercer 44s.)
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Figment
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Re: Anchor rode stowage
I don't have to, but it's much faster.Hirilondë wrote:That is an interesting idea.
Hmmm, I just feed mine through after I have hauled the anchor and all onto the deck. Do you really have to pull it down from below?Figment wrote: Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.
Really only an issue when I take the boy fishing and we anchor in 50'+, the usual lunch or overnight anchoring is only in 10-15' of water.
Yes, I was daydreaming through Yachtworld when the phones were silent. Until 4:30 when they ring off the hook, of course.