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>In a message dated 8/5/99 10:11:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gollerj@home.com
>writes:
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><< heavy anchor mounted on the bow pulpit >>
>
>And in an emergency you will drop everything, climb up on cabin top, skip
>over all lines (without getting caught) and run to bow to untie, untangle,
>wrangle and drop anchor while your motor races to burn itself lifted out of
>water by your weight on bow?
>
>Would it not be safer in floor by cockpit hatch where you can reach, grab
and
>launch without leaving cockpit. There is no law that says you have to
carry
>the anchor at bow location or bust a gut rushing up there to untie it so
you
>can drop it...
>
>I have a P19 and keep the stupid thing (Danforth of course!) in cabin under
>cockpit near hatch. In an emergency I would not like to run fwd with sails
>up, tangle with jib sheets, fall overboard dangling head down from jib
sheet
>while trying to launch the stupid anchor (prior experience) just because I
>was dumb enough to listen to a bunch of sailors that never use their
>anchors...
>
>It sure is a lot easier to reach inside cockpit pull dang thing out,
untangle
>it and throw it out stern. Voila! no need to be a circus clown... Another
way
>is to run line to bow roller and back to cabin. That way when you need the
>anchor it is close by (in cabin near hatch) and you can dump it over side
and
>adjust line from stern (assuming it holds on first try...)
>
>Doing things the hard way must be a Potter thing...
>
>Hope you reconsider...
>
>Best wishes
>SF
>