Connecting chain to the boat (what I did!)
My thanks to all. I took the advice nearly all gave and did the following:
Dumped the chain.
Disconnected chain from shackle attached to welded pad-eye in anchor locker
Took 8 meters of 18 mm 3 strand floating line and looped it thru the last link.
Not having the time nor the patience to spice the line together, I
joined the two ends together using rope clamps with a shackle thru one
of the lines.
Sprayed the clamps with silicone spray and wrapped the whole gizmo in
plastic stretch wrap to minimize the damage to the chain locker if the
metal clamps were to come in contact with the sides of the locker.
Then shacked the line to the pad-eye.
Then tested.
The 18 mm line, even when looped thru the last link came very smoothly
out of the windlass, so smoothly in fact that I thought I did
something wrong.
Then, using the windlass, I got the line to go in smoothly. An
unexpected benefit appears to me that my gypsy is sized for 18 mm rope
as well as ½ inch chain.
Did this five times. no hiccups.
Then while the admiral brought in the chain (after painting it to mark
the bitter end) I went into the locker to make sure the the rope /
chain laid correctly. It appear to, on its own.
Finished painting the chain to mark every 20 meters out and closed out
the locker. Reinstalled the 30 nuts to the studs (of course one would
not go on, so needed to use a die to clean up the threads, and of
course it was in a place where the handle for the die could not be
used.... so...)
and turned the room back over the admiral for dressing.
My thanks to all.
My next two work items:
See if I can get the anchor "door" (really just a plate) modified to
work with "dogs" typically found on a water tight door, and then in
the winter, find some 100+ feet of 18 mm rope, and attached it to the
last link properly.
My thanks to all who responded so quickly. Never saw the degree of
consensus as I did in on this issue in any other recent issue so,
thanks!
Lee
Looks like you lucked out and have a rope/chain gypsy there. I am sure you
kept in mind picking up 3 or 4 meters of chain off the yard floor is a lot
easier than trying to recover 100m that launched itself in 150m water.
Good old lanolin is the stuff to coat things like rope grips with. Just make
sure the rope grips package is on the floor of the locker and buried under
the chain repose. Outgoing chain has a bad habit of picking up things like
rope grips that have "handles" and carrying them into the gypsy through the
chain chute for a dandy jam up just when you least need it.
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From: Passagemaking-Under-Power
[mailto:passagemaking-bounces@lists.trawlering.com] On Behalf Of LAL
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2013 11:31 p.m.
To: TrawlerList TrawlerList
Subject: [PUP] Connecting chain to the boat (what I did!)
My thanks to all. I took the advice nearly all gave and did the following:
Dumped the chain.
Disconnected chain from shackle attached to welded pad-eye in anchor locker
Took 8 meters of 18 mm 3 strand floating line and looped it thru the last
link.
Not having the time nor the patience to spice the line together, I joined
the two ends together using rope clamps with a shackle thru one of the
lines.
Sprayed the clamps with silicone spray and wrapped the whole gizmo in
plastic stretch wrap to minimize the damage to the chain locker if the metal
clamps were to come in contact with the sides of the locker.
Then shacked the line to the pad-eye.
Then tested.
The 18 mm line, even when looped thru the last link came very smoothly out
of the windlass, so smoothly in fact that I thought I did something wrong.
Then, using the windlass, I got the line to go in smoothly. An unexpected
benefit appears to me that my gypsy is sized for 18 mm rope as well as ½
inch chain.
Did this five times. no hiccups.
Then while the admiral brought in the chain (after painting it to mark the
bitter end) I went into the locker to make sure the the rope / chain laid
correctly. It appear to, on its own.
Finished painting the chain to mark every 20 meters out and closed out the
locker. Reinstalled the 30 nuts to the studs (of course one would not go on,
so needed to use a die to clean up the threads, and of course it was in a
place where the handle for the die could not be used.... so...) and turned
the room back over the admiral for dressing.
My thanks to all.
My next two work items:
See if I can get the anchor "door" (really just a plate) modified to
work with "dogs" typically found on a water tight door, and then in the
winter, find some 100+ feet of 18 mm rope, and attached it to the last link
properly.
My thanks to all who responded so quickly. Never saw the degree of consensus
as I did in on this issue in any other recent issue so, thanks!
Lee
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