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Old 09-20-2016, 04:13 PM   #1
DHeckrotte
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Vessel Name: Revel
Vessel Model: 1984 Fu Hwa 39
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Transferring rode from roller to hawse

Our sailboat had an anchor roller, chocks on the toerail, and a winch. It was the work of a moment to flip the rode off the roller, drop it into the chock and cleat it off.

Revel has a roller, a substantial bitt, a winch, a pair of hawse holes with those weird cleat-lets. There's no flipping the rode off the roller and easily dropping it through the hawse and cleating it off.

Our roller clearly is not up to the task of resisting lateral loads; it's bent, the roller itself is too short for the distance between the jaws of the bracket, the pin/axle is rusty and thus suspect.

What's the trick? In no air, I suppose I could cleat the rode off to the bitt, then fiddle around with a bight of rode and pass it into one hawse, cleat it off and cast off the bitt.

We're on an Annapolis Harbor mooring, hanging to one hawse and cleat.
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