[PUP] bridle-sea anchor

[Keith]

You can use the snatch block to attach the second line to an amidships cleat 
on the same side. The Pardy's showed this arrangement in their book on heavy 
weather. It allows you to adjust the "bridle" to keep the boat at a slight 
angle to the advancing waves, which seems to work better than keeping the 
bow directly into the waves. With the snatch block, you can adjust this 
angle, although probably only before the storm hits!


Keith
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill" <wcz4399@yahoo.com>
To: <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [PUP] bridle-sea anchor


> John quoted Zack Smith as writing:
>
> "A second, short line is ran through the
> starboard
> hawse pipe and is attached to the anchor rode via a
> snatch block. The
> bridle
> created by the two lines keep the bow of your vessel
> directly into the
> wind
> and waves"
>
> This is incorrect as the bridle needs an immovable
> attachment, like a chain hook on a chain rode or a
> rolling hitch tied to a rope rode, or the bridle leg
> tied through a bowline.
>
> The snatchblock will simply ride the rode back toward
> the bow when put under strain.