glissando wood trim toe rails
The wood trim toe rails, wow, thats another project I have had in mind. How was that done and what materials were needed. I need to trim up my toe rails they were repaired after Isabel the best I could do but the wooden ones look great!:eek:
Rube Goldberg and his anchoring set up
Just thought I would give a post cruise update on the Rube Goldberg anchor set up we settled on.
Just a recap, I had removed the starboard chock, and beefed up the deck with a glass/epoxy coated oak plank to build a level platform for a windline URM-3 (or was it URM4, which ever is bigger) anchor roller. I backed that with a very large backing plate, and 5 5/16 bolts. The roller had almost enough overhang to prevent any contact with the Manson Supreme anchor when it was brought up.... will add ss plate to the shipped up area under the roller in the future.
The roller was on the short list of the best mods. It made it easy to bring up the anchor which was always well set (can not say enough good about that anchor). We used 55' of 5/16" ht, and even with it all out the roller made it not too bad to bring up.
The snubber was attached to the eye bolt just above the waterline. It was a little tough to reach, Rose could not stretch long enough to disconnect it when she brought the hook up, but leaving the snubber made fast to the eye was no big deal if not entirely bristol.
We used a peice of small stuff to lash the end of the chain to the bit, or to secure the anchor on deck when underway. It worked well, and never sliped.
When in really protected anchorage, like a creek or way up an inlet we would skip the snubber and just make the chain up to the bit with the small stuff.
Useing the snubber at the waterline allowed us to really take advantage of the Mansons short scope abilities. It is a good modification, that I would recommend. The only change I would make would be to use a better peice of hardware then I used. Although rated at 2500#, My 'bow eye' gives the boat the trailer sailor look. Something exotic like ebb would come up with would no doubt be more shippy, and stronger to boot.
Here is a picture, I thought I had one with the deck painted and the bow cleats installed but I guess I did not take one.. too bad as now after 2500nm of cruising things don't look quite so 'fresh' somehow...
http://sailfar.net/gallery/albums/us.../BowRoller.jpg