How is a Rope anchor rode handled and stowed?

[William_H]

I am intrigued that posters feel obliged to coil their anchor rope or indeed any rope on the boat. Any coiling of rope on my boat is dscouraged. For stowage I use a bag or in the case of the anchor rope an anchor locker. If rope is stuffed into a container with no atteempt to coil it there will be no kinks or knots. It simply is pulled out the same way it went in.
Coiling of ropes might look neat for stowage but is a pain when you want to use the rope again.
I guess there is much less anchoring in my sphere of sailing but definitely rope and a little chain is common for small to middle sized boats. olewill

 

[Iliade]

On my last boat, a Listang T24 which had no anchor well or spurling pipe, I would tie the end of a ~30m length of blue poly 'rope' to one of the very large bow cleats. Then pass it through the stemhead, which had a drop-nose pin to retain it, and pulpit, down the outside of the stanchions but inside the toe rail to the cockpit, then rotten cotton ties down the guard wires to the pushpit. Outside of that and finally into a wooden box in the lazarette. The line was flaked into the box and the chain & anchor lain on top.

Anchoring was then usually just a case of slinging the anchor out of the pulpit and waiting for the boat to turn around once the anchor had set. In twenty years I only had to reset it once, though I did have occasion to tie on more warp a few times! It was a Danforth.

The current set up involves three CQRs, no rope, lots of swearing and a near total failure to set first time! I have however a small CQR on my CAP360 and after practicing in the clear water of lake Annecy for a fortnight I think I may have got the knack of making one set. I just have to try it out on the full sized ones in a tideway...

 

[onesea]

I am intrigued that posters feel obliged to coil their anchor rope or indeed any rope on the boat. Any coiling of rope on my boat is dscouraged. For stowage I use a bag or in the case of the anchor rope an anchor locker. If rope is stuffed into a container with no atteempt to coil it there will be no kinks or knots. It simply is pulled out the same way it went in.
Coiling of ropes might look neat for stowage but is a pain when you want to use the rope again.
I guess there is much less anchoring in my sphere of sailing but definitely rope and a little chain is common for small to middle sized boats. olewill

Would agree about not coiling braided or platted rope. 3 strand, I still coil as I understand its the best way to maintain the rope and keep it form kinking, you just ahve to coil it the correct way for the twist in the rope.

 

[prv]

My query was only curiosity but very interesting to me. I use all chain mainly because it is self-stowing. I am especially amazed though that 3-strand nylon can be fall under its own weight into a below decks anchor locker without the kinking that 3-strand is known for.

I guess it's down to the design of the windlass. It's a vertical-axis one, with a hood over the spurling pipe, so the rope comes round the wheel, is stripped off it by a little metal tooth, and is already inside what amounts to a pipe with a 90º bend in it. There isn't really anywhere it can go except down into the chain locker, and with the fairly minimal cable that the boat came with there was lots of space in there for it to pile up. I'm certainly not suggesting it neatly flaked and coiled itself

Pete