aaronwestward
Learning to sail
Our Ericson 27 came with two anchors, the smaller of which has an attached short length of some light chain and has a matching mount on the bow pulpit. They were just sort of chilling in random lockers in the boat. There was also a container with a longish length of twisted anchor rode with a reinforced eye in one end.
My question is: where am I supposed to keep the rode so that it can be rapidly deployed? The only opening near the bow is the circle hole with a vent thing in it that goes to a strange area that can be accessed through a circular hole in the front of the v-berth. It doesn't really seem ideal for feeding anchor rode, as it presently has one of those plastic vent things in it, but then I've never actually fed anchor rode at all.
It's also not clear to me where the attached chain should reside. Perhaps the entire length of rode and chain are just stored separately, and attached when needed? This seems inconvenient, and risky, as far as losing the unattached anchor.
A last thing that's not obvious to me is why the lighter anchor is the bow anchor. It's my understanding that the bow anchor is the one you'd normally use, rather than the stern anchor, but wouldn't you want your normal anchor to be the heavier one?
Sorry for so many questions, but I'm having lots of trouble figuring out how this anchor stuff is supposed to work...
My question is: where am I supposed to keep the rode so that it can be rapidly deployed? The only opening near the bow is the circle hole with a vent thing in it that goes to a strange area that can be accessed through a circular hole in the front of the v-berth. It doesn't really seem ideal for feeding anchor rode, as it presently has one of those plastic vent things in it, but then I've never actually fed anchor rode at all.
It's also not clear to me where the attached chain should reside. Perhaps the entire length of rode and chain are just stored separately, and attached when needed? This seems inconvenient, and risky, as far as losing the unattached anchor.
A last thing that's not obvious to me is why the lighter anchor is the bow anchor. It's my understanding that the bow anchor is the one you'd normally use, rather than the stern anchor, but wouldn't you want your normal anchor to be the heavier one?
Sorry for so many questions, but I'm having lots of trouble figuring out how this anchor stuff is supposed to work...