{"id":10370,"date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/chain-stacking\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:38:53","slug":"chain-stacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/chain-stacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Chain Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chain-stacking-201.jpg\" alt=\"Chain-stacking-201\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The distance the chain has to drop from the deck and the area in which it can spread out are key details in a smoothly working anchoring system. Too little drop or space and the chain will not strip or spill cleanly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the photo above you are looking at a dry stack of 350 feet (107m) of the schedule seven 3\/8&#8243; (9.6mm) chain on the first FPB 64. Wet chain stacks more evenly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chain-stacking-200.jpg\" alt=\"Chain-stacking-200\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even with this rather high stack there is still lots of clearance with the down pipe. Normally the first 100 feet (30m) would be flaked to reduce the height of the pile even further (95% of the time 250 feet (75m) or less of chain is enough).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distance the chain has to drop from the deck and the area in which it can spread out are <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/chain-stacking\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}