[C320-list] Anchor roller bail

[Warren Updike]

Here is a way to release a stuck anchor. Have a length of chain, maybe 3',
pull your rode straight up and down, wrap the chain around the rode and
secure ends with a shackle, tie a line to the chain, lower the chain down
the rode and keep a strain on the rode, the chain will follow the rode down
over the shank to the ground. Now you can power fwd pulling the anchor out
of the ground backwards.

Extra chain, shackle, and line... just stuff every boater has hanging
around. No?

Warren & Pattie Updike
1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ott [mailto:wmo48 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 2:53 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Anchor roller bail

The anchor shank has 2 attachment points for the rode shackle.  I now use
the long opening that runs the length of the shank.  To keep the shackle
from sliding toward the flukes I tied a thin cord around the shank to keep
the shackle at the end.  If I can't pull the anchor with the windlass or
power it out with engine, I can pull the rode, in the opposite direction
until the cord breaks and now I am pulling the anchor from over the flukes
instead of from the end.  I have never had to do it but I like the option.
I originally bought a 35# with the same idea you had; go bigger than 
recommended.   I put it on the boat and boy was it big, so I returned it for
a 
25#.  

We have used it for about 3 seasons without a problem.  Held us through a 35
knot blow one night without a problem, course I didn't sleep much worrying.
Mike




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From: dprudden <dprudden at comcast.net>
To: "C320-List at Catalina320.com" <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Sat, December 1, 2012 2:03:55 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Anchor roller bail

Mike, Santa says "no" to me being good-just lucky. What do you mean by the 
breakaway cord? Is that a 2nd line to back pull the anchor?

David Prudden
#787

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 1, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Mike Ott <wmo48 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Apparently you have been good this year !  
> We have a 25# Manson and love it.  It grabs right away and digs right in.
We 
> have never had an anchor drag with this anchor.  The only issue we have
had is 

> that grabs too well.  The first couple of times this happened I got
worried 
> about having to dive on it to dig it out ( never had too).   I started
using 
>the 
>
> double shank element with a break-away cord, so if I had to I could pull
it out 
>
> with the shackle right above the flukes.
> The 25# will just fit under the existing bail but I need to get a larger
one to 
>
> make it easier to get the shank over the roller.  I am sure you need a
larger 
> bail for the 35#, don't know by how much though.
> 
> Mike Ott
> 'Amanda Lu'
> #508
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: "dprudden at comcast.net" <dprudden at comcast.net>
> To: C320-list at catalina320.com
> Sent: Fri, November 30, 2012 6:59:08 PM
> Subject: [C320-list] Anchor roller bail
> 
> Does anyone use a 35# Manson Supreme? Santa is bringing me one, and my 
> understanding from the discussion list and photos online is that I will
need a 

> bigger bail on my bow roller. Does anyone know what size I will need? 
> 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> David Prudden
> #787