On 1/5/07, van ford <vfsail@simpledsl.com> wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
>
> There was a story that I was following years ago about a guy that bought
> a hull from overseas that he then spent ten years completing the vessel
> and sailed around the world taking his time. One of the setups that he
> installed was a large (don't remember the size) pvc pipe from the chain
> locker to the bilge that he ran extra chain thru in order to keep the
> weight off the bow and yet still have the chain in one piece should he
> need it. Wise thinking.
>
>
>
> Van...
>
> We have participated in two efforts to pass the extra chain from the chain
> locker to the bilge. The first effort was on someone else's boat (a good way
> to learn) which was a Tayana 52. Rigid PVC pipe, 1.5 inch diameter, was
> installed and the chain kept buckling and getting stuck in the pipe. When we
> installed our chain pass-through, we used 1.5 inch diameter soft clear
> hose. Now when the chain buckles, we can still pull on it some and expand
> the hose diameter slightly and temporarily and get it unstuck. Not a great
> solution but it did help dispose of 200 feet of a continuous 400 foot 3/8
> inch chain and took uncounted thousands of foot-pounds of torque off the
> bow. We also installed a little roller usually seen used for stern anchors
> to pass the chain around the stem post. Couldn't seem to manage any larger
> diameter of hose, it just won't go through the little locker at the head of
> the V berth... On a previous topic,stereo on board, we also installed an
> auto-type radio with an auxilliary jack on the front face. From this we can
> plug in our computer if we want good audio for our DVDs, or plug in an MP3
> player for tunes. (We use an external computer monitor set up inside the
> center starboard puka to watch movies.) Radio was about $160 at Circuit
> City. For cockpit speakers we made a couple of epoxy-covered speaker boxes
> for ordinary 6 inch speakers and bolted them under the dodger on either side
> of the companion way. Our experience is that even *marine* speakers fail
> after a too-short time and have funny dimensions; this way we just go down
> to the car stereo place when we need and get a couple of new unhoused
> speakers - whatever is available - and change the old ones out in about ten
> minutes. The lifetime of these car speakers has been about four years out in
> the cockpit.

Michael & Elizabeth
S/V Cambria
Sonora, Mexico

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