Rick,
As we have used the CQR exclusively, it has done well for all types
of bottom. However, as mentioned, our first goal on entering an
anchorage is to be away from other boats whenever possible and then
we put out a lot of chain all the time. Many times, when diving to
look at the anchor, the pull is on the chain and does not even reach
the anchor. So, that probably accounts for a fair percentage of the
good luck. Also, depending on what the risk of an anchorage or
weather is we spend more time being sure of a good location and set.
And, we have many times stood anchor watch - watch on watch - as
though on a passage. Because, as Ernest Hemingbone/John Donne said:
Don't ask for whom the bell tolls ...... it tolls for your boat.

A previous post concerned the chain rubbing on the bobstay. Amadon
Light has a 3/4 inch Navtec rod for the bobstay; in effect, a 6 foot
long rigging screw. It is covered with a high-grade, slick white,
heavily reinforced, rubber hose with a 7/16 inch ID, cut about 6
inches short of the rod. The chain makes no sound when touching the
stay and the hose can ride up and down a bit as the boat moves to
anchor. It lasts about 5 years of full-time anchoring, and the white
color makes it pretty much disappear from view. A hose specialty
company would carry such a product.

The nice thing about boats, cruising, and cruising folks, is that the
conversation never flags, the sea stories are all true, and everyone
is right - in their own minds.

Ciao,
Bill

P.S. This past year the kranz (fitting on the end of the bowsprit
holding the four stays) developed several minute, almost invisible
fissures. I took it in to be welded in French Polynesia and the
fellow made a valiant attempt to save it. Each time he welded a
fissure another appeared nearby. These fissures when examined only
went half way through the half-inch thickness of the material - the
inside was completely free of any deterioration. The consensus was
the material was work-hardened and was at the end of its life. A new
one, made at a first class shop in Los Angeles, cost $1,400. Perhaps
I should have said it was a kranz for a Chevrolet.


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Received on Fri Jul 15 08:25:13 2005