Gordon Saville - boat name Knot Yacht ,M17, #641. Our fluke anchor is tied to the front starboard stanchion with a running hitch. The end of a 200' 1/2 inch line is tied to the center stanchion base leading to a white sunbrella round bag with a hand sewn rope grommet in the center of the bottom of the bag. The rope, marked every 25', is stuffed into the bag along with most of the 20' chain. To anchor, the running hitch is pulled, the anchor and chain are lowered overboard, and the rope is run on the outside of the bow pulpit and cleated. The rope has never tangled.I will confess it is time consuming to stuff 200' of rope into a 8" bag; although normally about 100 + 25 chain. If in a hurry, I just pull up and flake the line on the side deck, where I don't worry about loosing it through the life lines, and stuff the bag later. At present, I have to go forward to the small deck to work, but feel quite safe on my knees and all fours. That is going to change soon. I have a wood working shop in the home I built 16 years ago. The teak is in the shop and ready to go. I am going to cut aprox. 20" by 16" hole in the exsiting hatch, then install teak curb and build an arched top forward facing hatch. The modification will make the hatch open both ways. Then I can stand in the new forward facing hatch and anchor, I'm 6' it works - I tried it on the trailer. Shoot, who knows someday we might even deploy and retrieve our own homemade light wind sail from there?