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To paraphrase the late Freddy Prinze: "Chain on you, chain, chain, chain." While on our club raft-up on Memorial Day week-end, we had trouble deploying our anchor. The chain kept gettin' stuck in the chain locker and we had to break it loose. Got out about 1oo feet but that's all. When the week-end was over, we got back in the slip, dropped the anchor in the water and proceeded to pay out chain until it got stuck again. Got to work on it with a 12" spud and managed to it get all out but that last 15 feet that had turned into a solid blob of rust. Got out my 3" cut-off grinder and cut free the good chain from the blob and started breakin' the blob loose. All told, we lost about 20' of rusty chain with 215' left of somewhat rusty chain. Moral of the story: if you don't anchor out much(we don't) let out all your chain now and then to keep it from settin' up.