[Public-List] To Gord, Mike, Joe B and the rest of the smart guys

[Gordon Laco]

Hi again... 1/4” would be too light... we carry 5/16” BBB chain.  That type has short links which means more weight per foot   That’s a very good thing 

G

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> On Sep 1, 2018, at 5:41 PM, Joseph Balderson via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> 150' of 1/4" chain. Thats a lot of wt fwd. Why so much chain?
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 4:48 PM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi there -
>> 
>> I need to offer a correction to the descriptions… the length of the chain
>> is 150’, not 200’ as I wrote…
>> 
>> Gordon Laco
>> www.gordonlaco.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 3:12 PM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <
>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gord, your new photographs are now added to
>> http://www.alberg30.org/maintenance/DeckGear/BowrollerOnSurprise/
>>> 
>>> - George
>>> 
>>>> On 8/27/18 8:26 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
>>>> Good morning friends -
>>>> I’ve sent George a couple of photographs of SURPRISE’s anchor roller
>> set up with the Bruce anchor we currently use in place.  I took the photos
>> last evening after supper.
>>>> Anticipating questions about the actual piece of kit I installed… here
>> is a detailed description.
>>>> The roller assembly is an obsolete Ronstan fitting which I found in the
>> sale bin of one of the boatyards I supply.  That’s the bad news.  The good
>> news is that there are others currently made which I am sure would serve
>> equally well - perhaps better - because I had to modify the one I’ve got in
>> order to make it work.
>>>> I had the base extended by four inches by means of a 1/4” thick
>> stainless steel plate welded to the base.  My intention was to give the
>> fitting deeper reach aft so that I could secure it with five studs, which I
>> drove into drilled and tapped holes in my bow casting.
>>>> As I’ve written earlier, I wish I had made the extension one or two
>> inches longer, so that there was no possibility of the anchor contacting
>> the bow when it’s being hoisted that last bit onto the roller for stowage.
>>  As things stand, it rarely touches, but from the marks on the bow I see
>> it has indeed touched three times over the years; and that’s not bad.
>>>> I value the way the setup stand mainly because it is very short, so
>> maximizes the strength of the whole deal.  I like how it holds the anchor
>> very securely when we’re sailing, and I also like how unobtrusive it is
>> with regard to aesthetics.
>>>> The roller itself is aluminium… in the 18 years it has ha