T&T: Stowing wet chain or rope

[Jim Ague]

>> Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have millions of old ladies
>> running around with tattoos and pierced navels?

(We like to think that the cute little butterflies  tattoed on the breasts 
will have stretched downwards and regressively metamorphed into caterpillar 
looking thingies.)

Regarding wet rode, we let ours lay on the deck until dry. On occasions the 
rope part will have dried and I'll drop it into the locker but keep the 
chain part on deck if the links are clogged with mud until I can clean the 
chain with a high pressure hose. I would not recommend stowing rode on deck 
if you are about to head out into pitching seas. We almost alway avoid these 
anyway.

On the Monk, and I suspect most other vessels, anything that goes into the 
locker ends up in the bilge. Including live sealife that will end up as 
smelly dead things.

Derreen's deck access to the rode locker has a cap covering about a 4 in 
very short pipe with a side entry, aftfacing, just big enough for a link to 
fit through. It keeps almost all vertical falling rain and horizontal 
running deck splash from entering the locker.

-- Jim
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Jim & Rita Ague
M/V Derreen, Monk 36
lying NMB, SC
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