{"id":415,"date":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:56:48","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew334\/","title":{"rendered":"La Paz: Unfouling the Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">La Paz: Unfouling the anchor.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\">\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"fouled anchor\" title=\"fouled anchor\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/lapaz_anchorfoul__02.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<p>The photo above was taken as we were about to stow our big ROCNA anchor after being anchored at La Paz, Mexico for two days. La Paz is infamous for its reversing wind and tide against current situation, and what we have here is the chain nicely wrapped around the anchor stock.<\/p>\n<p>This anchor weighs 240 pounds (115Kg) so the unfouling process has to be done in a certain way. What follows applies to just about any foul, including when you&#8217;re hooked on another anchor rode.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anchor foul\" title=\"anchor foul\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/lapaz_anchorfoul__03.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Step one is to get a support line onto the head of the anchor. In this case we have a line running from the Samson post by the windlass, through our fairlead forward, around the roll bar, and back to the Samson post. This is snugged up tight. Note: The piece of three strand on the right side of the fairlead is our &quot;snubber&quot; line and not involved in this process.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"unfouling anchor\" title=\"unfouling anchor\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/lapaz_anchorfoul__07.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The chain is then eased off to the point where the support line is holding the anchor, and the chain is free. Obviously you must be sure the support line is well secured, and strong enough to do the job. We are using a piece of 7\/16&quot; (11mm) polyester. With the anchor now hanging by its roll bar it is easy to unwrap the chain from the stock and head. We did this with our boat hook as it is a little far for Steve to reach. The support line is then eased off, the anchor hangs in its normal position, and is then winched home in normal fashion.<\/p>\n<p>More details on unfouling anchors (and avoiding fouls) will be found in <em>Practical Seamanship<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Paz: Unfouling the anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}