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Old 02-01-2015, 10:24 PM   #30
Marin
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The chain that is not sitting on the bottom is still adding its weight to lowering the angle of pull on the anchor. The nylon, brait, etc. in a combination rode plays almost no role in this at all.

A snubber has only two values to my way of thinking: taking the pull of the boat off the chain in the bow roller and so prevent it from moving in the roller and transmitting annoying noise into the boat, and providing sone shock absorbing when the conditions kick up enough to pull most of the catenary out of the chain and thus cause shock loads to be transmitted directly to the boat itself.

That's why our snubber set up is designed to allow most of the weight of the deployed all-chain.rode to keep the angle of pull on the anchor as low as possible.
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