{"id":36,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:13:45","slug":"anchor-chain-shock-absorbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-shock-absorbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Chain Shock Absorbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Hello Steve and Linda&#8230;again my compliments on the Encyclopedia&#8230;it is most helpful&#8230;Just having difficulty understanding how to rig the shock absorber described on p40 for the chain anchor rode: how do you &#8220;tie&#8221; the nylon line to the chain&#8230;seems like it would slip with any kind of load&#8230;does it take a special knot? What about feeding the line through a selected link, say halfway down the chain such that both ends of the line then secure on deck? Wouldn&#8217;t this have the same effect as your tied rig without then having to secure the line on the chain twice? thanks mucho, Richard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Hi Richard: There are several ways to accomplish this. One is with a snap shackle, with the line spliced or knotted to the end and the shackle attached to the chain. Another is with a bowline directly through the chain link. Finally, a series of half hitches, where you work away from the boat with the hitches, so you are pulling over them with the line, will also work (although it is sometimes difficult to undo the hitches!). We&#8217;ve used all three approaches. Regards-Steve <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Steve and Linda&#8230;again my compliments on the Encyclopedia&#8230;it is most helpful&#8230;Just having difficulty understanding how to rig the shock <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-shock-absorbers\/\">&#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-36","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\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36428,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/36428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}