{"id":5293,"date":"2009-05-12T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/this-could-lead-to-an-ugly-chain-of-events\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:19:44","slug":"this-could-lead-to-an-ugly-chain-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/this-could-lead-to-an-ugly-chain-of-events\/","title":{"rendered":"This Could Lead to an Ugly Chain of Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"chain foul 1\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/chainfoul1.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gotten out of the habit of letting all our chain out at the beginning of each cruising season to check for chain balls and kinks. Not any more. The mess you see above came to light this afternoon as we were anchoring in 90 feet (27m) of water and so using more than the normal amount of chain.<\/p>\n<p>As this twisted section came up through the chain pipe it jammed. Not a nice thing on a good day, and potentially disastrous in a difficult situation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"chain foul 2\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/chainfoul2.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The process of freeing up a jam starts with securing the chain ahead of the windlass (we have our chain stopper on here).<\/p>\n<p>Next, you have to free the chain from the gypsy. This can usually be done with a large screwdriver (and sometimes a hammer).<\/p>\n<p>Once free, the twists (ball\/knot) need to be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>In our case we stow 275 feet (82m) of chain in the self bailing locker and the balance (75 feet (22m) just aft of this in the forepeak. The bitter end is secured. The kinks in the first photo have accumulated over the past two years and to remove them we had to flake out the last shot of chain, and then shake the twists down to the bitter end.<\/p>\n<p>A safety warning. Any time you are working on the chain gypsy it is best to turn off the power to the windlass. An unintentional triggering of the winch could lead to loss of fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve gotten out of the habit of letting all our chain out at the beginning of each cruising season to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/this-could-lead-to-an-ugly-chain-of-events\/\">&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}