captainforbes
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Weighed anchor today and found the by the time the anchor came up.................. it wasn't there! My boat was lying to her anchor for 48 hours in windy conditions. The wind/tide combination was such that we were swing around the anchor many times. The anchor swivel undid itself after the anchor left the seabed. how lucky was that? On close examination of the chain end of the swivel (that's all we,ve got) the swivel axle was attached by a threaded SS central rod which was threaded onto the other side of the swivel, and hammered to stop it unscrewing. It think it was an XM YAchting swivel. Anyoune else had this problem? Could have been disastrous.