anchoring the V

swampbilly 1980 · #1 07-27-2009, 07:13 AM

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

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?

joe7670 · #2 07-27-2009, 08:33 AM

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

BigAl331 · #3 07-27-2009, 09:46 AM

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

macojoe · #4 07-27-2009, 10:01 AM

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.

bcmarinamanager · #5 07-27-2009, 11:12 AM

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

swampbilly 1980 · #6 07-27-2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bcmarinamanager

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.

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?

Blue_Runner · #7 07-27-2009, 12:20 PM

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

Airslot · #8 07-27-2009, 12:51 PM

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?

RWilson2526 · #9 07-27-2009, 12:58 PM

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.

swampbilly 1980 · #10 07-28-2009, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

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

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).