anchoring the V

[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

[swampbilly 1980]

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]

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

[Airslot]

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]

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]

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).

[phatdaddy]

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.

[BigAl331]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

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.

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

[swampbilly 1980]

OK I gotcha' now!

[bcmarinamanager]

Originally Posted by swampbilly 1980

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?

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.