anchoring the V
 

After reading many posts here there is one thing I believe that's safe to say...Our V's are consistant. They share the same value, good and bad-(such as sagging over the cuddy over the years etc..). The only real complaint I would have is ANCHORING:cry: I like to drift most of the time but, occasionally like to hang over a good Spot or Trout hole and I HATE anchoring, especially in some chop. Anybody have an anchoring system mounted on the top deck?

Macojoe has some picture in the gallery with the Starboard Pulpit that he built. Looks like a sweet option to keep the anchor handy and make it easy to use.

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/album93/Picture_183

That one looks like mine except mine doesn't stick out as far.

before the pulpit i had a rope on the front eye all the time that could reach the side of the boat. I would throw the anchor off the side of the boat and when it got caught i would hook it to the bow rope, leaving enough so that the bow rope was always in the boat.
now when having to pull the anchor i just grab the bow rope pull it in to the side of boat and retrive it that way, never going to the bow.

Bow pulpit is definitely the way to go. Keeps you straight into the current. Makes it super easy to retrieve the anchor too. Make sure yo have at least 6 feet of chain on your anchor as well. I keep about 8 feet on mine and in a 3-5 knot current it grabs EVERY TIME. Here's mine

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/album149

Very nice. :love: It looks like the chain runs through the hole in the deck where you store the rope, which would be inside the cuddy, am I seeing this right? And then where do you make the anchorline fast, inside the cuddy on a cleat or something?

Swamp, there is an anchor locker in the very forward part of the bow separate from the cuddy.

Search for username's Airslot, and MSBHammer. We made starboard pulpits with self launching rollers that have worked great. Build and Install was fully documented on this site, probably under Modifications?

mine came with the anchor mounted out on the deck....there are some rubber holder things that the anchor slides into that keeps it from bouncing out....then I have a hole in the deck covered with a chrome plated clam shell thing(I'm sure there is a real name for it)...and then the rope is stored in the anchor locker down below....

I have a cleat mounted up top to tie it off to when in use. kind of hard to see in the pic

agreed though that a bow pulpit is the way to go.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...0/DSCF2216.jpg

Yeap, I gotcha'. And with the pulpit rig, once the anchor is released, where do you make the line fast?, on an additional cleat closer to the slider? I would store the anchorline in the locker, but after the anchor is set I'm not understanding or seeing in the pics where to make the line fast (tie it).

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...chorroller.jpg

this is the set up on my boat. the line ties off on the cleat on the pulpit itself and goes down the deck pipe to the anchor locker below. when i bought the boat, the previous owner was keeping the anchor in the fish box in the deck and dragging it over the cuddy to the bow. this was not practical for me, i was doing a lot diving then and had 30' of anchor chain to contend with, this system works great.

OK I gotcha' now!

Have you got a pic of below deck? I want to see how you have your's set up below deck.

Got a cleat right dead center that I use as my bow cleat too. The "clam shell thing" you speak of is called a chain plate. On mine I use a closed line chock that has a screw in pin that closes off the chock. This serves two purposes: 1. the pin is just small enough to fit through the chain, so when the anchor is up on the pulpit it holds everything up, 2. When hauling the anchor, I leave it closed too, so that I can stand up and pull the rode in and the chock keeps the angle of the line parallel to the deck so the anchor comes up easier and sets into the anchor roller perfect.

cleat right in front of slider, easy reached

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/..._188.sized.jpg

ask & ye shall recieve

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...6/DSCF0475.jpg

the backing plate is a 1/2 piece of ply that is epoxied & glassed on both sides. i wanted to put a piece of sheet al, but didn't have one at the time. the black tube (4" plastic drain tile) on the left is where the line goes down to the anchor locker. i lost the cap to the deck pipe and this funnels the water to the anchor locker and on to the bilge. one tip, get the biggest deck pipe you can, makes putting the line in easier.

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...6/DSCF0476.jpg

this is a side shot.

You guys have been very helpful, thank-you very much. :nice: I lost some before and after pics in a storm a month ago durn it, but taking some more this weekend. I took my boat to get the bottom painted to a guy who has a boat lift to get underneath where you can't get to. I specifically told him I want the old bottom paint removed before a new waterline and paint is put on. Picked up the boat and guess what.....? they painted overtop of the existing crap that has been on there for years from the previous owner. I told 'em, crap, I coulda' done that..and for $600.00 it should have been done:fight: He was worried about getting into the gel coat- I asked him.."do you work on boats or not?" " If you get into the gel coat you need to add some,geeze that was the purpose of bringing it to ya' in the first D@<# place!":

my backing plate was some diamond plate aluminum

Sorry to hear about you paint!! Should have asked for a soda blasting then paint. But if he said he was striping it he should have!!

Thanks phatdaddy. That is what I was looking for. Mine just goes through the deck and hangs there. There was supposed to be a basin to hold the rope but the last owner said that it broke in some bad weather so he took it out.

I was just looking for alturnatives to hanging something under the deck.