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Old 04-15-2013, 10:48 PM   #27
Marin
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Originally Posted by manyboats View Post
You're right in that the catenary will provide shock absorption when you have catenary but unless you have very under sized ground tackle (and I know you have over sized) you won't even need shock absorption until your catenary is gone .... and of course you won't have any then..
We have plenty of normal shock absorbtion with the snubber. If the winds and waves are enough to take the catenary completely out of the chain to the point where it's bar tight the snubber bridle will have long since broken.

But as I say we do not anticipate that ever happening here as there are too many close-by protected places to get into in these waters if the wind's going to be that strong.
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