Sandy
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Has it ever been used? Will it ever be used? Is it an annual club trophy for the boat who has never spent a night at anchor?
It looks so nice it would be a shame to get it dirtyHas it ever been used? Will it ever be used? Is it an annual club trophy for the boat who has never spent a night at anchor?
Or a final buff of your scalp in my case.Also useful for that final hair combing before walking ashore![]()
We have stainless chain. It’s never rusty, washes easily, lasts pretty much forever. We bought an offcut from Jimmy Green, best thing we’ve ‘improved’. Attached to 50m of octoplait and an aluminium Spade.No stainless chain then.
Cheapskate !
It does have two un-seized shackles in line between chain and anchor. There have been some odd split-pin decisions made too.No stainless chain then.
Cheapskate !
I wonder if I could paint mine with this.We have stainless chain. It’s never rusty, washes easily, lasts pretty much forever. We bought an offcut from Jimmy Green, best thing we’ve ‘improved’. Attached to 50m of octoplait and an aluminium Spade.
And, as I speculated on my report (forums.ybw.com/threads/a-knotty-anchor-problem) of a glassed-in chain locker, slithers down rather than heaping up?We have stainless chain. It’s never rusty, washes easily, lasts pretty much forever. We bought an offcut from Jimmy Green, best thing we’ve ‘improved’. Attached to 50m of octoplait and an aluminium Spade.
I can’t help much there, as ours is very much not glassed up, is wide and flat, and entirely deployed and recovered by the mk.1 hand. It’s much nicer to handle though.And, as I speculated on my report (forums.ybw.com/threads/a-knotty-anchor-problem) of a glassed-in chain locker, slithers down rather than heaping up?
Of course; with white kid gloves, natch!I can’t help much there, as ours is very much not glassed up, is wide and flat, and entirely deployed and recovered by the mk.1 hand. It’s much nicer to handle though.
The ooze in the bottom of any Solent anchorage is quite discouraging of this. Mrs C wouldn’t get to be piped aboard in her usual style.Of course; with white kid gloves, natch!
And that is when new. As they age, the pivot pin and the faces wear down.The amount of play in even a genuine CQR seems quite large, as this picture of a new one shows:
It’s not my boat, but on the same pontoon. I chose a genuine Lewmar Epsilon, sadly in galvanised steel not shiny stainless.I wonder if you will still display it on the bow when the shank bends.
All that money & you have to lean through the pulpit on your knees to undo a shackle with the pliers to release a bit of elastic which then pings the pin in the oggin. Very well thought out? I think not.
Might help if you parked the boat back a bit as well. Very inconsiderate if someones small child walks into that load of scrap metal over the pontoon.