{"id":10631,"date":"2010-03-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sampson-post-and-fairlead\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T21:18:45","slug":"sampson-post-and-fairlead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sampson-post-and-fairlead\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampson Post and Fairlead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"424\" alt=\"Fanning 6-026\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fanning_6-026.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fairlead over the anchor and the related Sampson post are not easy to execute, hence a costly exercise (not to mention heavy). But we think this is a good investment in terms of weight and budget. Together these two items perform a number us useful functions:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"430\" alt=\"FPB 64 bow fairlead\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dsc_0526-1.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The fairlead works great with an anchor snubber line, eliminating chafe, and allowing the use of a smaller diameter, and therefore stretchier piece of three strand nylon.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>When pivoting off a dock with a bow spring the fairlead is in a perfect position to help the bow spring line attain maximum force.<\/li>\n<li>If it is necessary to use a parachute anchor, or to be towed the combination of fairlead and Sampson post is an ideal system to distribute load and minimize chafe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The loads on the anchor snubber and bow spring are comparatively light. But the towing or parachute anchor loads can be extreme. So these bits need to be strong.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB64 Sampson post construction 1\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fpb64-inpsect-nov20-09-108.jpg\" width=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sampson post is made from a solid piece of six inch\/150mm aluminum. As you can see above it is captured at the deck, and with two intermediate web frames.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"FPB64-1Sampson Post 107\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fpb64-1-mar-15-2010-107.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sampson post is positioned forward of the windlass, where it is out of the way, but still has a clean lead back from the bow fairlead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"415\" alt=\"FPB64-1-Sampson Post-112\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fpb64-1-mar-15-2010-112.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fairlead over the anchor and the related Sampson post are not easy to execute, hence a costly exercise (not <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sampson-post-and-fairlead\/\">&#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-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631"}],"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=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}