Yea, Tom, where are you on this one?

with all due respect, of course!

I like the hawse hole and pipe distinction, regardless of the anchor rode.=
 

Ken
Moonshadow II
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Steven Hodge
  To: Baba, Panda and Tashiba List
  Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:38 PM
  Subject: RE: [baba] Anchor rode


  But the anchor rode does NOT pass through the holes I'm talking about. S=
ure I pass one of the snubbers through it, but that's not the anchor rode. I=
'm talking about the holes through which one normally passes your dock lines=
. There are 3 on each side of Alcyon. One could hardly call all 3 hawse wh=
atevers as the midships & aft ones couldn't possibly ever have anything to d=
o with an anchor. So what the dickens is the proper name for them? Is it d=
ifferent on a 40 vs a 30? Tom B., surely you can help us out on this one! =
 Steve, Panda 40 Alcyon
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  From: David Glueck [mailto:davidglueck # earthlink.net]
  Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:19 PM
  To: Baba, Panda and Tashiba List
  Subject: Re: [baba] Anchor rode


  Nothing worse than admitting to a mistake and finding out you were right!

  At 04:21 PM 6/21/2005 -0400, you wrote:

    The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea says the opening in the ship'=
s bulwarks where an anchor rode passes through, in the bow, is a hawse hole =
and the metal "collar" is a hawse pipe. Chock, as a verb, is the process of=
 keeping something from shifting and "taking charge" (OCSS' term). Neither =
chock (as a noun) or chain pipe is defined in OCSS but I'll gladly tread whe=
re even the OCSS won't [LOL]. I take a chock to be something to keep a line=
 from sliding around loose as it comes aboard to be made off to a cleat, etc=
. - sort of a "C" on its side or back, if you will. So far as I know, if yo=
u want to buy something to pass chain or rope rode through the deck, ask for=
 a chain pipe. I'm quite content with "hole for the chain pipe" when discus=
sing where it's mounted.
    Arrrrh, mateys! [wink]
    Rick Emerson
    S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35

    DAVID GLUECK wrote:


      Sterve,
      I agree. Even as I was writing "hawse", I knew I was wrong (actually =
the hawse is the hole in the deck). Chock makes sense if it is open at the t=
op, but I am sure, given sailing precise but arcane language, there is a cor=
rect name.
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