[Rhodes22-list] Anchor Chain Question

[Rob Lowe]

William,
When thumbing through the West Marine catalog the other day, I noticed
several charts on chain/rope rodes.  Here's the link to one of their pages
that contains some more info.

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/WestAdvisorDisplayView?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&advisor=anchorrodes.htm

Rob Lowe
S/V Getaway

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Anchor Chain Question


> William,
>
> Here's an excellent paper on the physics of anchoring. Might be more
> than you really wanted to know, but I'd say this guy knows his stuff.
> Sounds like the best combination is a half, give or take, chain, half
> nylon anchor rode. here's the link.
>
> http://www.dulhunty.com/dmp1.htm
>
> Hope this helps.
> Rik
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