Anchor Setup

[peterb]

I recently purchased a 1978 SF. Quick question. How is the anchor setup in the bow designed to work? When i look at my boat verses other boats I see certain things missing regarding the anchor setup.

[FELLOW-SHIP]

The anchor locker up front is too small to place a anchor in it and really doesn’t have enough room for a long anchor rope. I put a short 80’ anchor line in it and use the fish box hatch to put 400’ of rope a anchor and a anchor retrieval ball and a 12’ cast net in.
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[FELLOW-SHIP]

I should also have asked if you were talking about the anchor locker or the anchor cleat mounted on the cap???
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[peterb]

Thanks Fellow-ship. That's what i was thinking. Quick question. In the anchor locker, do you have any idea what very long screw is for (is it to hold rope)? if so, is there any hidden function, or is is what you see is what you get?

[FELLOW-SHIP]

If you are talking about that approx 1 1/2 foot threaded shaft approx ½” thick that goes from the bow cleat (for attaching boat on to a trailer) that then goes up to the cleat on the cap for tying off a anchor rope that is for extra support while being anchored plus ability to use it for as a lifting ring to hoisting the boat with it and the two in the stern on the transom all three used together for lifting boat out of the water.
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[peterb]

I see. Thanks.

[RS]

I removed the lifting rod/ring, and can now fit 300' of rode with chain and anchor in the locker. I went with double braid so it lays nicely compared with 3 strand.
I like to think I need the fishbox for fish, even if it's mostly my imagination. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[peterb]

Come on Roger.

You live near some of the most fertile fishing grounds in the world. Your fishbox has to be overflowing everytime you go out.

Every fall a group of us makes a pilgrimage to Montauk. We fish the Montauk, Fishers Island & Block Island area and all we have to do is whistle to get the fish into the boat.

[RS]

I do OK, but I can't whistle. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]