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Old 09-04-2015, 04:59 PM   #19
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In my book, the purpose of the snubber is to take the load off the windlass. It's not designed for jerking, heavy loads in one direction and you will eventually bend the shaft of the windlass with loads like that. Then you get to pull the whole thing in by hand or cut the rode.

I almost forgot, the subject anchor thing is trouble waiting to happen. I can also see the boat hitting something with that through-hull and basically can-opening that hull.
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