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Originally Posted by SkunkBoat
5/8" line is way too much. Bigger is not better.
Too expensive when someday you have to cut off (and your expensive anchor)...
You need too much room to store it!
300ft only gets you 60ft deep on a nice day. You'll be lucky to get 300ft of 5/8" in there.
3/8 ...7/16" is nice for pulling.
1/4" chain. 15' of 5/16 is too heavy.
That deck pipe will not fit chain. I have one in the 'never gonna use this" pile in my garage. You need the bigger round one or the oval one. I drilled a hole in deck and inside cabin to get to anchor locker. used a piece of cheap landscape drainage pipe siliconed between holes.
I saw a picture on the Mantis site of a Mantis in the same pivoting roller as mine.
here is a pic of the deck pipe
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I understand, I was just trying to be conservative. Like i said before I might go with 1/2" rope and 1/4" chain. I had to get a better setting anchor because I am not good at it and the danforth i had has pulled loose a couple of times especially when it was not a sandy bottom. With the kids on board I want to make sure its as safe as possible. I also don't usually anchor in 20-30 ft depth, rarely in 60 ft water except at the lake and that in fairly calm conditions.
So with the deck pipe did you have to run a pipe inside too? It's manual pulling right now from my end, so I was just hoping to just install that on top pull up the rope and then feed it into the anchor locker from the cuddy once done. I am actually thinking i might put the deck pipe on the sliding top.. will post some pics once I have that figured out
Would you mind posting a pic of the installation from the inside when you have a chance, there really isn't much info out there on how to install in the WWW.
Much obliged,
Cheers
Ashok