Getting so I don't want to haul an anchor up on deck every time I want to park for a while. I'd appreciate learning different ways folks have mounted their anchor on the deck of a CD25. thanks.
aurora@capital.net
anchor set up for CD25
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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Don Carr
Re: anchor set up for CD25
First, my philosophy is that the boat is small enough that I don't want to use any real estate for anything but underway boat/sail handling.. having said that my comments follow. I have the anchor mounted on pushpit railmounts. You could hang the anchor off the pulpit but I have found that method to be a formula for the early demise of impaled/chaffed spinnakers and genoas. As for the rode I simply flake it on the foredeck, disconnect the shackle and then place it in the cockpit locker on the way back to the helm and pushpit where I place the anchor in the mounts.Getting so I don't want to haul an anchor up on deck every time I want to park for a while. I'd appreciate learning different ways folks have mounted their anchor on the deck of a CD25. thanks.
carrd48@netzero.net
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Mike Thompson
Re: anchor set up for CD25
My approach was keep the anchors in the cockpit lockers and
drop them from the stern. This avoided carrying them to the bow
while at sea before entering harbor.
Mike
tmike@ma.ultranet.com
drop them from the stern. This avoided carrying them to the bow
while at sea before entering harbor.
Mike
Getting so I don't want to haul an anchor up on deck every time I want to park for a while. I'd appreciate learning different ways folks have mounted their anchor on the deck of a CD25. thanks.
tmike@ma.ultranet.com
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zeida
Re: anchor set up for CD25
Keith:
As a previous CD-25 owner, (mine was a 1980) this is what I did for my anchor: On my CD 25 I carried a 25 lb. Danforth anchor with 15 ft. of chain plus nylon rode.
Inside the boat, at the most forward end of the V berth, my CD had a small, round piece of wood. I got curious and took it out and found that there was a small extra space there. With the flashlight I saw there was room enough to stow my anchor rode there if I could cut a hole on deck and drop the line thru it.
First, I cut the opening in the V berth and expanded it into a 6" x 12" opening, where I could really see and access the area in question. Then I bought from West Marine a nice stainless chain deck cover/hawse pipe -the right size was one about 5" long. I cut the small opening on deck - an oval of about 3" x 3" (big enough that my chain would fit nicely thru it) and installed the hawser. I used a thick rubber gasket between the deck and the hawser and made up backing plates for the bolts...then sealed everything properly. I had a perfect place to stow my anchor line, and you could see it from the inside of the boat. Then I hung the anchor from the bow pulpit, right at the very front, with an anchorholder. "Windline" makes an excellent one that fits Danforths and Fortress anchors, for under $40 that's very easy to use, you just drop the anchor on it, and that's all. The stem, I kept hanging straight down outside of the bow pulpit and would secure it with a bungee cord, and the rode itself went back into the new "anchor well". I finished the job by adding a small "louver" type wood door on hinges to cover the opening in the V berth, which gave it a very nice look. And you could open it to inspect the rode and chain, etc.
I used my spinnaker many times, and regularly a 150% genny on a Harken rollerfurler (after I got tired of carrying two sails - the jib and a genoa- which used up lots of needed space inside, plus having to hank the sail on and off every time...) So with my big genny on a rollerfurler, the sail still never really got tangled in the anchor. So for me, this worked perfectly.
Cheers,
Zeida
zcecil@attglobal.net
As a previous CD-25 owner, (mine was a 1980) this is what I did for my anchor: On my CD 25 I carried a 25 lb. Danforth anchor with 15 ft. of chain plus nylon rode.
Inside the boat, at the most forward end of the V berth, my CD had a small, round piece of wood. I got curious and took it out and found that there was a small extra space there. With the flashlight I saw there was room enough to stow my anchor rode there if I could cut a hole on deck and drop the line thru it.
First, I cut the opening in the V berth and expanded it into a 6" x 12" opening, where I could really see and access the area in question. Then I bought from West Marine a nice stainless chain deck cover/hawse pipe -the right size was one about 5" long. I cut the small opening on deck - an oval of about 3" x 3" (big enough that my chain would fit nicely thru it) and installed the hawser. I used a thick rubber gasket between the deck and the hawser and made up backing plates for the bolts...then sealed everything properly. I had a perfect place to stow my anchor line, and you could see it from the inside of the boat. Then I hung the anchor from the bow pulpit, right at the very front, with an anchorholder. "Windline" makes an excellent one that fits Danforths and Fortress anchors, for under $40 that's very easy to use, you just drop the anchor on it, and that's all. The stem, I kept hanging straight down outside of the bow pulpit and would secure it with a bungee cord, and the rode itself went back into the new "anchor well". I finished the job by adding a small "louver" type wood door on hinges to cover the opening in the V berth, which gave it a very nice look. And you could open it to inspect the rode and chain, etc.
I used my spinnaker many times, and regularly a 150% genny on a Harken rollerfurler (after I got tired of carrying two sails - the jib and a genoa- which used up lots of needed space inside, plus having to hank the sail on and off every time...) So with my big genny on a rollerfurler, the sail still never really got tangled in the anchor. So for me, this worked perfectly.
Cheers,
Zeida
zcecil@attglobal.net