{"id":27,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:07:17","slug":"anchor-chain-swivel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-swivel\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Chain Swivel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> what is your view on using big swivel to connect the anchor to the chain? I was reading Earl Heinz&#8217; book on anchoring and it seems important to put them on the right way around &#8211; Phil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Swivels are not required in my own experience. I have never used one. Also, they are a potential failure point. I know of two boats that have had problems as a result of their swivels. &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what is your view on using big swivel to connect the anchor to the chain? I was reading Earl Heinz&#8217; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-swivel\/\">&#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-27","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\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36055,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/36055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}