Hello All,
My E38 is set up with an electric windlass and all chain rode. The challenge is that when the chain is coming in, it piles up on itself after it drops into the locker and tends to bind up the windlass. So, when weighing anchor we have to open up the v-berth and station someone down there to pull the chain down and out of the way as it comes in - PITA!
I've been trying to dream up some kind of fabrication I can do in the locker to fix it. I'm just wondering if anyone has already encountered something like this and what solution they may have come up with. I saw a post the other day that referenced putting in a hawse pipe??
FYI - I did a search on the topic "anchor locker" in this forum and either I'm doing something wrong or something is amiss. It seems like no matter what I search on, I just get the same very long list of hits??
Thanks!
John
My E38 is set up with an electric windlass and all chain rode. The challenge is that when the chain is coming in, it piles up on itself after it drops into the locker and tends to bind up the windlass. So, when weighing anchor we have to open up the v-berth and station someone down there to pull the chain down and out of the way as it comes in - PITA!
I've been trying to dream up some kind of fabrication I can do in the locker to fix it. I'm just wondering if anyone has already encountered something like this and what solution they may have come up with. I saw a post the other day that referenced putting in a hawse pipe??
FYI - I did a search on the topic "anchor locker" in this forum and either I'm doing something wrong or something is amiss. It seems like no matter what I search on, I just get the same very long list of hits??
Thanks!
John