{"id":151,"date":"2012-07-09T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svecho.com\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2012-07-09T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:13:47","slug":"anchor-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/svecho.com\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year we added a Manson anchor as our primary. \u00a0The anchor has been just great and held well in many different bottoms and wind conditions. \u00a0The only downside was that with its quite non traditional shape, it would not ride well in the factory anchor roller plate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you can see in this photo, the Manson anchor rode way up on the rollers and it also was up against the secondary anchor. \u00a0Also, the secondary anchor rode too close to the hull and was too wide to fit the space allowed in the roller plate.<\/p>\n

Over the winter we worked with Whitewater Marine<\/a> in Port Huron to design and fabricate a new plate and roller assembly.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a photo of the completed project. \u00a0both plates were extended to move the anchors away from the hull a little bit. \u00a0We also made the plate from thicker metal to make it stronger.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We put in a strut underneath both to provide support for the anchor chain pulling when at anchor and to oppose the spinnaker pulling up when tacked to the eye \u00a0on the front of the plate.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The original plate was backed up under the deck using 3\/8 bolts and fender washers. \u00a0The new plate we attached with 1\/2 bolts and a full backing plate.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We also made a divider for the anchor lock the keep the chains separated for the 2 anchors. \u00a0I glassed a wood stringer on each side of the hull and then screwed the epoxy coated plywood divider to the stringers.
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Tom at\u00a0Whitewater Marine<\/a>\u00a0is a real artist. \u00a0He also did our arch and I’ll be adding a page detailing the arch and dinghy davits soon. \u00a0Tom kept drawings of all the details and it is a bolt on kit for a 473.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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