Ben, Sorry to ad to your work list! (smile) My prior owner put in a well backed up and reinforced eye in each hull, which our anchor bridle hooks through
We are temporarily off Angel Louise till mid-week. We have been in a mini-bus with 11 other cruisers from England, Austria, Australia, and us from US for last 2 days. We left our boats in our winter Turkish marinas for a six day / five night excursion to explore some inland sights of our host country with a guide. We visited an ancient mountain city built of beautiful marble with a history going back 1400 years before Christ, later captured by Alexander the Great, later taken by the Romans and occupied till around 1000 AD when it was abandoned after horrible earthquakes, and covered with later erosion till modern times. Spectacular views. As live-aboards we hate to leave our boat, but what's the point of traveling to exotic ports if all you do in them is fix the boat? Ed on Angel Louise. On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Ed Kelly wrote: > > > > The chafe is the killer. I may have mentioned before that our first > surveyor > > about 15 yrs ago told me he was a former USCG officer & engineer and did > > insurance claim investigations. He said in many many hurricanes he had > never > > seen a boat with a BOW EYE attachment that had been destroyed. > > Interesting - although perhaps there's a bit of sampling error there > (there aren't all that many big boats, and especially sailboats with bow > eyes as compared to everything else.) But it does make sense that a > large eye, especially one well-backed and with nothing for the rope to > chafe on (and maybe even close to the waterline), would be a better > solution than the more usual cleat/edge of deck/chafe protection mess. > The only thing I'd be concerned about would be the sharp bend in the > anchor rope where it went through the eye, but that's a solvable > problem: thimbles, etc. would spread that load. > > I think I just talked myself into adding a project to my list. :) > > > Ben > -- > OKOPNIK CONSULTING > Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business > Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming > 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- Ed Kelly sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m Skype to AttyEdKelly or Skype-in phone: 202-657-6357 attyedke...@gmail.com
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