Anchor snubbers

[Neeves]

Oh, it's so easy just having (decent sized) chain, and saving myself all that fash and palavers. ?

Ah - but if you were retrieving by hand you'd love 6mm chain! Its just one of the compromises we are all faced with (and hopefully Crinan has no palaver nor faff).

Jonathan

 

[gregcope]

I suspect most times you will not deploy any rope, so you will benefit from a snubber. You need to attach the snubber to chain and I suggest a hook. If you look at most hooks (or all hooks in chandlers) the chain simply 'falls' into a simple slot. Many times you anchor the wind might drop off (that's why you chose to anchor there), and your chain might hang straight down to the seabed. With a little movement (tide or wind) your yacht will move dragging the chain hook over the seabed - and the chain might (I stress the might) slip out of the hook. I made a simple gate to keep the chain in place.

One suggestion is, once the subber is attached, is to play out more chain so that the lose bit hangs down below the hook. Makes it allot harder for the hook to jump off.

 

[dunedin]

One suggestion is, once the subber is attached, is to play out more chain so that the lose bit hangs down below the hook. Makes it allot harder for the hook to jump off.

Agree. In hundreds of anchoring we have never had the chain come off the open hook. So we will stick with that.

But it is theoretically possible - as is the stretchy rope breaking. Hence why a second short strop with closed shackle used as well, accessible as on deck.

 

[gregcope]

Agree. In hundreds of anchoring we have never had the chain come off the open hook. So we will stick with that.

But it is theoretically possible - as is the stretchy rope breaking. Hence why a second short strop with closed shackle used as well, accessible as on deck.

I agree. If i were going to the far latitudes or round the world that would make allot of sense.

For my UK/France sailing I would take the risk as the outcome is probably not bad. Besides with my windlass/chain I would hear the racket of the chain going out if the snubber broke. If the chain came off the open hook, the conditions are likely to be benign so the windlass would probably hold it.

 

[duncan99210]

I use a two legged snubber, each leg about 6 - 7 metres long made out of 16mm octoplait. There’s a hook that goes on the chain and the snubber legs then go through the bow fairleads to the bow cleats: once rigged, the chain is eased to produce a loose loop between the winch and the hook. It’s simple to rig and takes all the strain of the anchor onto the cleats not the winch. No noise except for occasional creaks in higher wind speeds but by the there’s usually other noises going on to worry about.....

We’ve used the rig for years now and it’s never let us down. Occasionally when the wind is light and fluky the hook might fall off the chain but that’s normally in very shallow water where there’s not much weight on the hook. We used to use a shackle of sorts but gave this up as the pin was constantly being distorted by the strain it was under in high winds: the hook is simple and reliable.

 

[Graham376]

I use a two legged snubber, each leg about 6 - 7 metres long made out of 16mm octoplait. There’s a hook that goes on the chain and the snubber legs then go through the bow fairleads to the bow cleats: once rigged, the chain is eased to produce a loose loop between the winch and the hook. It’s simple to rig and takes all the strain of the anchor onto the cleats not the winch. No noise except for occasional creaks in higher wind speeds but by the there’s usually other noises going on to worry about.....

We’ve used the rig for years now and it’s never let us down. Occasionally when the wind is light and fluky the hook might fall off the chain but that’s normally in very shallow water where there’s not much weight on the hook. We used to use a shackle of sorts but gave this up as the pin was constantly being distorted by the strain it was under in high winds: the hook is simple and reliable.

How much does your boat weigh and what's the windage like? I doubt with our 9 tons we would get any stretch on 2 x 16mm snubbers. We use a single 12mm 3 strand and never had the hook fall off, always leave a decent size slack loop of chain.