{"id":6566,"date":"2009-10-26T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2009-10-26T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T03:44:01","slug":"anchor-swivels-why-they-are-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-swivels-why-they-are-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Swivels &#8211; Why They Are A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/loch-sunart-scotland-220.jpg\" alt=\"Loch-Sunart-Scotland-220\" width=\"576\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are not fans of anchor swivels, having seen several disasters due to their failure. This photo clearly shows the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Your anchoring system needs to be consistently engineered, from the bow roller, to the anchor chain connection, the chain itself, chain stopper, and windlass.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the chain in this photo, and compare it to the swivel clevis pins. The steel in the chain is probably a third (at least) stronger than the stainless in the swivel (depending on chain alloy). The links have two legs, equal in diameter to the swivel clevis pins. So the stronger chain alloy has twice the material to carry the load. If you had to pick a weak spot in this system it would be the swivel, which might carry half the load of the chain before failing.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to bet your boat, and maybe your body on this set up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not fans of anchor swivels, having seen several disasters due to their failure. This photo clearly shows the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-swivels-why-they-are-a-bad-idea\/\">&#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-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566"}],"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=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}