DECK PIPE?

Ted Duke (tedduke@usa.net)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:50:47 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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JBlumhorst@aol.com wrote:
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> Have you considered .... adding a deckpipe for your anchor rode ... ?
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-------------NO. I hadn't, but I am now.

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> I've got the same fan which I installed exactly the way you did. I've
> considered putting deckpipes both on the foredeck and the transom, and
> hanging anchors off the bow pulpit and off the transom (for quick
> emergency deployment without having to go forward).

---------GOOD IDEA!

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> I was fiddling around before I installed my new transom ladder, and I
> figured out that I could mount a PVC pipe outboard of the ladder and
> stick the Danforth anchor's shank down it with the rode attached. Just
> pull it up and drop it to deploy it in an emergency

> Anybody else ever considered doing or actually done this? Any pros,
> cons, suggestions?

---------That would be great (PRO) but I will have to consider
that carefully as there is already so much stuff back there
now (CON). Of course, I have my gas tank on the step above
the ladder. I think I might try installing a piece of that
white pipe on the starboard side at the rear of the rail with
temporary clamps and see how it works.

Ted Duke
WWPs19 #626
Mountains of Virginia