Stern Anchor rode removal, swapped anchor to Fortress - 2011

May 2011 - At Marina Cortez, San Diego, CA

Empty port stern lazarett.

We turned the boat around in our slip so the stern is in. There is a lot of work we were waiting to do when we did the turn around.

 We started the Davits

 We removed the stern anchor and rode

 Started cleaning the stern

 Removed the Outboard and mount

This is the first time we have had the boat with the stern in. We can now reach the stern to work on it.

 The anchor, rode removal. It was of course a mess. We have never used it. We did swap out the old fluke anchor with the Fortress 16 anchor we had from the Catalina 30 we owned but that was it.

So we took off the anchor and pulled out the rode.

There are some temporary wires and hoses going through the are and up through the houser to the stern rail. Propane hose, propane valve shut off wires, and extension chord to name some.

They will go away later.

All the chain and rode and emergency cut off line and extra stern rode on dock

The hose and wires coming from the rode houser will go away later.

 Existing stern anchor bracket

This looks like it was a slated stanchion bracket with a 1" piece of SS tube in it. Then a anchor bracket attached to it.

We will probably need to come up with a different anchor mounting system as the dingy davits are in the way

A mess

Anchor rollers for the stern anchor, a nice strong setup.

Stern anchor rode.

Stern anchor chain, we will replace this with about 10' of 5/16 chain. It is a 5/16 chain here we just do not need so much chain.

The small three strand was the safety line to be cut if need be.

The double braid was tied to the three strand larger rode for an rode extension we believe.

 The anchor rode had a bowline on it with the chain attached to it with a swivel. It was duck taped for chafe.

Not good but worked for the PO.

 We will replace it with a rode to  chain splice and try using the existing rode with a new piece of chain. If the rode is too bid to splice to 5/16 chain we will go with all ne stern rode and use the existing rode at the bow for the Fortress spare bow anchor, or that is the plan.