Greatlaker221
Senior Member
Jleonard, How did you cover the motor below your vertical winch?
Steve I love your bow rail but I'm not nuts about the Samson Post. The tie is too high. With a lot of tension on the anchor rode the tension on the two aft bolts of the Samson post must be extreme. I'd consider a big four bolt cleat that attaches the line right down on the deck. Then the bolts will be almost completely in shear and all four bolts will be taking the load .. not just two in tension.
I have two small Samson posts and would like to be rid of them. They are on the cap rail amidships and I need them for my two spring lines. Mine would be better off if they were tall like yours as there isn't enough room for two lines to tie gracefully. I had a Samson post on the bow but gave it away. That one was really nice looking though.
Jleonard, How did you cover the motor below your vertical winch?
No overboard drains , but the bulkhead I built is up on pads that allow drainage and it's opened up at the sides also . The other one that rotted was all the way glassed the the deck with only the sides open . Did not drain well . We can wash this area down now with good drainage down the deck .Marty, do you have an overboard drain in the area between the bulkheads where you store the wet rode? Looks like a great way to contain the water and mud on the deck when using a manual windlass or power winch.
Peter, that looks like a great setup.
That`s what we have, but the problem is getting the line from the bow roller across the Muir windlass down to the cleat. I put a small ss strip along the trailing edge of the "box" enclosure between the bulwarks on which the windlass sits(Grammarians,note preposition location) to accommodate a single line snubber.... I'm not nuts about the Samson Post. The tie is too high. With a lot of tension on the anchor rode the tension on the two aft bolts of the Samson post must be extreme. I'd consider a big four bolt cleat that attaches the line right down on the deck. Then the bolts will be almost completely in shear and all four bolts will be taking the load ...
Never seen that Steve. Thanks for showing. Looks like there may be some Brait mixed in w the three strand on the left.