Storing the anchor rode on a 16

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southa

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The Cruiser 16 I just purchased came rigged for a small danforth anchor off the bow. But where do I store the rode? Suggestions welcome.
 
You could tie down a plastic milk carton box on the foredeck, or, better yet, for a much better solution..............


Look in Oldgrowth Dave's album:

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Joe. :teeth :thup
 
I run mine back along the starboard side deck and installed a cleat in the cockpit behind the pilot seat and hang it on there. If I could find a canvas bucket like I used to have I would hang that from the bow rail and store it in there.
 
When I plan on anchoring I hang the rode from the bow rail in two 75 foot coils. Otherwise it is all (rode and anchor, in a plastic bucket in the bow under the berth.
 
We don't have bow rails on Crabby Lou, and we don't have a hawse pipe either (yet). The anchor lives on the roller, secured by a bungee. The chain and rode live in a 5 gallon bucket, usually stored in the cuddy. It is a bit exciting going forward, fastening the chain to the anchor and letting it all out by hand, especially if there is any wave action going on, but so far so good (read: I have not gone in the water yet!). But then we have only anchored a couple of times so far.
 
That trip forward is a real pain. I have thought about investing in some effort to find a higher bow rail. Might look funny but who cares. Blake Island is notorious for being rolly, and I have been able to experience zero gravity from the bow out there. I would even consider that fancy bow rail that self deploys if I knew where to find it.
 
I use straps similar to these on the rail

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That looks like Arkansas Chrome on the outside of the plastic bucket...

What's a practical solution for rode on deep lakes like Seneca in NYS where depth is 600 feet? I'm assuming thin, strong cable, or go sit on the porch with the puppies...
 
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What's a practical solution for rode on deep lakes like Seneca in NYS where depth is 600 feet? I'm assuming thin, strong cable, or go sit on the porch with the puppies...
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Do you have to anchor in 600 feet of water? Are there no shallower areas available?

What about scope? a 5 to 1 scope means you need 3000 feet of rode, 7 to 1 means 4200 feet of rode. A mile is only 5280 feet!

Practically, I don't see any reasonable way to carry 3000 feet of rode on a 16 foot boat. Even 600 feet of 3/8" three strand nylon anchor line would be a handful. Steel cable might be an answer, but difficult and dangerous to handle without a special windlass. Kevlar, Spectra, or a similar high-tech rope might be a partial answer, though they typically lack much stretch/elasticity.

If I tried to carry that much rope rode (600 feet) on a 16 foot C-
Dory, I'd use an electric powered drum mounted in the cockpit and led around the cabin to the anchor roller.

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Hey, I'm looking for a lake to retire to, really like Seneca (one of the NYS Finger Lakes) but the thing is DEEP and the bottom falls off fast from shore...with proper scope, a half-mile of rode is needed to drop the hook properly. I really hate to double the size of the boat to accomodate the anchor line...

My anchoring would be for relaxing floating, while using the laptop with an EVDO connection in the cabin...maybe a sea-anchor could work for that, while monitoring drift with the GPS?
Or, way less scope? Daytime only, wide awake. sober...
 
what i do and just did on a 12 day cruise to the san juans with my 16 cd is, milk crate it. i cut a notch in the milk crate to allow the anchor to sit almost flush with the top of the crate. this allows it to fit perfectly in the space directly under the cushion that pops out. i can reach it if i need to in an emergency and its out of the way.
i dont like to carry heavy things to the front on such a small boat. i deploy the anchor from the cockpit. i then cleat it off at the stern, walk to the front of the boat with the line in hand feeding from the milk crate slip a bight through the roller and cleat it to the front cleat. back in the cockpit i uncleat and the boat swings around into proper position with the line off front over the roller onto front cleat. i then have the line leading aft from front cleat to the rest of rode in milk crate. this crate fits well in the angled stern area where the drains are.
to bring anchor in i cleat line at stern, walk to front and uncleat . i leave milk crate in stern uncleat and pull line in feeding it into crate. its not hard to pull such a small boat.. i put a towell over boat in back corner to prevent chain from damaging boat. i can usually keep chain off sides ok. it sounds complicated but it really is very easy and it works for me.
 
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