sea ancor attachment 430

[Wim van den Toorn]

Anyone with experience as far as sea anchors are concerned, like where and how to attach? Hunter recommands a through-bolted pad eye right behinf d the anchor bin, but how do I ge there?The windlass is certainly not strong enough, I think. Any opinions?Thanks.

 

[George Kornreich]

Try the forward head

If I understand what you are asking, you can get to the area behind the forward anchor locker by removing the panel (4 screws) or the wall above the toilet, You are then in the aft anchor rode locker. There is already such a pad-eye there for the anchor rode, but I dont know if that is where they mean to attach the parachute. Do they mean to install another one on the deck? If so, you can get to the area the same way to install the backing plate and nuts, but you will find it takes a bit of bending and flexing to get your arm up there and see what you are doing, though it's possible.

 

[Paul Cossman]

The forward cleat works for me

I have a Passage 42, and once layed to my 18 foot diameter Paratech parachute sea anchor for three days during a gale. I routed the 10mm single braided nylon rode through my bow roller and tied it off to a backplated forward cleat. It worked well. Sometimes there were tremendous loads on the boat when it would veer while riding up the back of a swell and come up against the slack in the rode. I would not have wanted to depend on the smaller backplating of a padeye for the loads I sustained. In fact, I was even concerned about the cleat loads even though I backplated it with a 1/4" foot-long piece of 316 stainless steel bar.I also had to check the rode every hour or two for chafe. One time I found that my chafe protection had become dislodged and the rode chafed halfway through. After that I let out about 6" of rode every couple of hours to provide a new nip where it rubbed on the bow roller.Good luck in your installation.