Anchor deck chain pipe...how do you use it?

[VicS]

Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, 1967

Looks like their Loardships have flogged off a job lot of these at one of the boat jumbles.

i suppose we will be treted to the correct definitions of every bit the boat mentioned for the foreseeable future.

At least I can access the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea using SWBBO's Rail Card number

 

[VicS]

You learn something new every day. Certainly in the confusing World of boating, anyway!
So, I have broken the bonnet off of my chain pipe/navel pipe/hawsepipe/spurling pipe (I think I'll just call mine Wilf. Bonnetless Wilf)

In some cultures they would have cut your bonnet off anyway wouldn't they ?

 

[JumbleDuck]

It would appear the original poster has the typical yacht arrangement of a navel pipe with fixed bonnet and hinged cover.

I don't think my boat has a navel pipe at all, just the bonnet.

cunliffe (v): to use, or to promote the use of, nautical terms of dubious authenticity. "Old Harry's at it again, cunliffing away for the grockles." : One who cunliffes.

 

[Murv]

In some cultures they would have cut your bonnet off anyway wouldn't they ?

They would, and with the configuration on my front deck, if the chain locker takes on that much water I have far bigger problems than a missing chain pipe bonnet anyway.

I think I shall go back to calling it "the-square-flappy-thing-what-the-chain-pokes-through." Far less confusing!

 

[rob2]

I've always thought that the bonnet had two purposes, one is to reduce the aperture for water to find its way below (and then out the locker drain) and the second is to drop onto a link of the chain and stop all that hard won chain from falling back down into the locker. Mine is one of the horizontal type and so won't stay open, a complete PITA when tryong to weigh anchor.

Rob.

 

[born2sail61]

wilf

You learn something new every day. Certainly in the confusing World of boating, anyway!
So, I have broken the bonnet off of my chain pipe/navel pipe/hawsepipe/spurling pipe (I think I'll just call mine Wilf. Bonnetless Wilf)

i wouldn't call it wilf.those with minds like cesspits(ok,me) will automatically associate it with MILF,GILF etc! W=wife if you get my drift. Right,i've lowered the tone,i'll be off....

 

[LittleSister]

Looks like their Loardships have flogged off a job lot of these at one of the boat jumbles.

Bought off a fellow forumite, who I assume had been in the Navy, a while back. I had remembered how interesting the Manual was from my days in the Sea Cadets, both as a source of sound technical advice and an insight into life on big ships in an era now largely past (hemp ropes, Aldiss lamps and ships boats with sailing rigs, etc.).

i suppose we will be treted to the correct definitions of every bit the boat mentioned for the foreseeable future.

I couldn't care less what people call the bits on their boats. I just think these terms and their definitions/evolution are interesting, and that others might, too.