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AJ, My boat has the same locker in the cuddy. How do you secure the anchor so it does not rattle around in it.
Our boats have the same cuddy doors. On mine only the top hatch has a hasp and lock. The smoked sliding door does not lock. What does your lock assembly look like. I too prefer smelling the hops over a fishy smell when drinking a beer. I always have a beer while cleaning our days catch, so I get both. If you got em drink em! ;D ;D Bill Mc

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I'm with ya Mac Attack! Hell, my body and my boat may be covered in blood and guts...but my cold beverages better be pristine!
As far as my sliding door...It doesn't have a lock. I can tell it had one, but it has long since given up the ghost. I have been thinking of a good way to secure it and the top sliding hatch with one mechanism. Any ideas ???
MJ...the only function my boat has is to bring in the biggest and mostest fish in the sea! What other ungodly purpose could a boat possibly have??????? :P

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MJ doesn't believe that we can catch fish and have a clean boat. ;D IT'S TRUE MJ! ALL YA HAVE TA DO IS BREAK OUT THE HOSE A BRUSH AND A LITTLE SOAP ONCE IN A WHILE! ;D Actually his boat isn't all that bad. he's exaggerating a little. ::)

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Hello All,
I was wondering if some storage could be created in the cuddy under the V-Berth similar to the one in the forward area with the teak cover. They sound hollow when you tap on the sides and if there aren't stringers under there at the very least I could stow life jackets and rope there. Seems a simple mod to use the dremel to cut a neat rectangle and save the cut out piece for a lid. Anyone know if its hollow inder the port and starboard bunks?
Capt Jerry

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Capt Jerry,

I've often thought of taking the sawzall to that area but never had the guts to go through with it. It definitely sounds hollow. Has anyone on the board with a cuddy gone through with this mod? ???

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Unless you go down the center there is not much room there! The huge V shape of the bottom makes it a very small area, and it is a wage shape.
I no this because a friend of mine and I went to look at one and they had it cut away up front to fix a hole thur the front.

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Heres how my anchor is stored. The anchor itself rides in "chocks" on the port side deck, rather far toward the bow. I have a piece of two inch PVC that is run throught the dechk and into the anchor locker just forward of the the wooden cover for said compartment. There is a "rode chase", I think thats the term, mounted over the opening on the bow deck. I keep the anchor on deck with the chain sort of wrapped around it and the rode falls into the anchor locker. Works very well.

Airslot

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I like that idea, Airslot. It would really clean up the clutter that anchoring inevitably causes. Only thing I question is how much water finds its way into the anchor locker and then to the bilge? I know everyday rain or the water from a wet rode isn't the issue...I'm talking taking a wave or 10 over the bow?
Then again, a 2" hole isn't really that big....let me know what, if any, issues you've run into...I might need to break out a holesaw bit for the drill!
Thanks ;D

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I have the same deal with my boat. i have the 2" hole leading to the locker.
I don't no were the old owner use to anchore but there was a ton!! Of sand in there when i got the boat!! It took me beter then a season to keep washing all the sand down to get it all out! >:(
I don't use it any longer. I have a 5 gal bucket with holes drilled into the bottom. I coil the rope into that and I have a screw on cover. Achoe rides on the bow with chain on it till needed.

As for water getting into that 2" hole, don't worry about it!! I think i might have buryed the bow 2 times in the 5 years I have had it and not much when in at all.