{"id":18,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:12:30","slug":"anchor-windlass-with-multiple-anchors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-windlass-with-multiple-anchors\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Windlass with Multiple Anchors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Steve &#8211; I am preparing to install an anchor windlass on my light displacement 43&#8242; sloop. Primary anchor is a 45# CQR with 75&#8242; of 3\/8 HT chain + 250&#8242; 5\/8&quot; nylon rode. Secondary anchor is a Fortress FX-37 with 25&#8242; of 3\/8 HT chain + rode. I will carry a 100# Luke storm anchor. My question is how to manage multiple anchor lines\/chains with a single windlass. I would prefer a low profile vertical windlass to keep weight down and stay out of the foredeck crew&#8217;s way when racing, and am willing to live with rope\/chain splice and redoing same when any splice wear starts to show. But I do not believe this will enable handling two anchor rodes? Adding a drum to the vertical windlass will handle the second rope rode, but not the chain. What do you suggest? Thank you. &#8211; Bill <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Bill: You can use a vertical windlass &#8211; chain on the gypsy at the bottom of the windlass with the second anchor rode onto the warping drum on the top of the windlass. The alternative is to have a horizontal windlass with a separate gypsy and warping drum. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We favor the single vertical approach as we rarely anchor on two hooks, preferring to put most of our anchor weight in a single hook. In your case, we&#8217;d switch to 5\/15&quot; schedule seven chain and put the weight savings into the primary anchor. Also, look at the Spade\/Rocna type hooks as these offer better holding in a wider variety of bottoms than the CQR. &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve &#8211; I am preparing to install an anchor windlass on my light displacement 43&#8242; sloop. Primary anchor is a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-windlass-with-multiple-anchors\/\">&#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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anchoring-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36353,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/36353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}