So a background on my chain issue.
Boat came with 140 feet of chain. I like to anchor with a 4:1 scope so I sleep peacefully. My bowsprit is 7 feet off the water, so that’s 28 feet right there. Then add 32 feet to deal with the 8 foot tide in Georgia, 16 feet to deal with my 4 foot draft. I can put out 76 feet to just get started.
So I saw a chance to get 160 feet for 200 bucks I leapt at it.
Anchoring for the first time this year, near Kent Island in the Chesapeake, I went to pull in the chain on the windlass.
Wash down pump wouldn’t work. OK, so not good but it is what it is.
Windlass would not work (blown fuse). OK, but not windy, and not too deep, so I managed. But got hands pretty muddy.
Replaced windlass fuse, tried the same routine off the ICW. Chain slips then jumps off windlass drum.
I research this and discovered I needed BBB chain for this to work. (Which I had in the 140 length, now back in my garage in Massachusetts)
Shopped around, seems the manufacturer choices are limited to say the least, for American made 3B mooring chain. It came down to simply choosing a retail outlet, either Defender, or a local yard, in this case Lamb’s for the same product.
Ended up at Lamb’s and it seemed to me to look like a thin electroplate version of galvanizing. I guess I was expecting more of a hot dipped look.
Anyway, I’m going to try the Rust-Oleum 1600 treatment. Yes I expect it to come off. But I have to color code the chain at different lengths anyway, and spray the anchor every year, so not that big a deal to redo.