Plastic bucket with 15 ft chain One foot for length of boat. Light weight chain is good. Chain is needed to lay on bottom and keep rode from wearing on bottom. Heavy chain if anchor in heavy windy areas and rocky bottom Depends lots on where you anchor and style of anchor and weight of anchor. Sleep well If done right Lots of factors to consider San Juan Island Area Lots of time on the hook Sent from my iPhone On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Daniel Rich <danielgrich@gmail.com> wrote:
Montypals:
Just got back last week from the Small Craft Skills Academy in Port Townsend. Fantastic experience. Anyway, based on that I have a bunch of things to think about. One of them is how to handle my anchor tackle. Presently I have a small danforth with about 6 feet of chain, and then about 80 feet of rode. I have put marks on the rode now to measure out how much is being payed out as I anchor. I would like to stow the thing in the port lazarette which on my boat is wide open to the bilge. How are you guys doing this? Bag? Plastic container? I know that the line needs to be carefully flaked into the container so that it runs free when paying out the line. Thoughts here?
Daniel Rich M15 #208 "Kestrel" danielgrich@gmail.com