If you keep your anchor at the bow... 1. Have you installed an anchor roller, or use a PVC pipe fastened to the pulpit to hold the anchor shank? 2. Do you have a hawse pipe to feed rode below to a container on the V berth, or to a "chain locker" below the V berth? Can anyone direct me to pics showing some solutions they may have come up with or just describe in a message what you have done. Right now we keep a bruce with 20' chain and then rope in a flexible tote in the port cockpit locker. Usually drop it from the cockpit and then walk it forward. When cruising we keep the anchor on a rubber mat at the aft end of the cockpit with the chain and have the rode running forward inside the toe rail, through a bow chock and back. Allows us to drop over the side from the cockpit and adjust scope from the cockpit. Keeping the chain from scrubbing the gel coat on the coaming top is a challenge. We lay more interlocking rubber mats over to protect. Can be a bit fussy if you have to get the anchor down in a hurry. Thanks much Bill Wickett Makin' Time M17 #622