Our 1989 48CPMY jams the anchor chain often when hauling up the anchor because it has to go through a kink halfway down the hawsepipe.
This hawsepipe arrangement therefore means we need someone below the forward cabin floor to flake incoming chain... as well as someone on deck washing incoming chain... and again someone on the bridge maneuvering the vessel.
I'm considering modifying this arrangement so just the admiral and I can handle this as a two person job. This means we'll basically remove a hawsepipe section from below the deck to where it goes through the bulkhead below the berth... a length of about 3 feet.
My reasoning is to then glass in the lower hawsepipe opening and then keep about 150ft in the upper section for most anchoring situations.
We'd then draw on the "reserve" 150ft under the berth for really deep anchoring like we experience here in Desolation Sound in the PNW. We have a total of about 300ft chain.
Has anyone tried this, or come up with other ways to limit jams when hauling in the anchor?
This hawsepipe arrangement therefore means we need someone below the forward cabin floor to flake incoming chain... as well as someone on deck washing incoming chain... and again someone on the bridge maneuvering the vessel.
I'm considering modifying this arrangement so just the admiral and I can handle this as a two person job. This means we'll basically remove a hawsepipe section from below the deck to where it goes through the bulkhead below the berth... a length of about 3 feet.
My reasoning is to then glass in the lower hawsepipe opening and then keep about 150ft in the upper section for most anchoring situations.
We'd then draw on the "reserve" 150ft under the berth for really deep anchoring like we experience here in Desolation Sound in the PNW. We have a total of about 300ft chain.
Has anyone tried this, or come up with other ways to limit jams when hauling in the anchor?