T&T: Another thought on anchors, windlasses and washdown systems

[R C Smith Jr]

"Marty Campanella" wrote:

> a free fall drop will make it more difficult to place the anchor and
> fall back the distance you want to correctly place yourself 50 feet in front
> of the boat behind you.  We frequently will drop the anchor to 25 feet as we
> close in our position and then drop the last 10 feet to place the anchor and
> start slowly drifting back.

Marty, I think with most horizontal windlasses you can control your
free-fall drop with the windlass clutch to get the amount of precision you
describe above. I do not think there are any free-drop vertical windlasses,
are there?

Bob
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Robert Calhoun Smith Jr in DC
M/V MARY KATHRYN
Hatteras 58 LRC
Lying South River
Annapolis, MD