Anchor bridle


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WizzyNoise

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What have people done for an anchor bridle ? the no brainer is to tie it off to the bow cleats, but if the boat swings enough, the bridle will yank the spotlight off the bow. If only there were a couple of fairleads in the rubrail.

If you move back to the fore spring cleats, then at some point the bridle will start chafing against the hull.

The final option is to install a new cleat somewhere near the windlass, but don't know if that's strong enough to take the shock. Or maybe it is, since it's near the windlass.

What have you done ?
 
we've never used one. the location of the anchor under the bow makes it too much of a pain, so i just use the chain lock and remove the tension from the windlass.

that being said, if we grab a mooring ball, i use the forward most cleats. i just snub up the line running to the ball enough so that it can't swing up high enough to snag the light.
 
jlanka said:
The demo video on their website is useless.
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Yeah, the demo video wouldn't work on my phone last night but worked on my computer just now (Windows 10 with Edge).

This would be good to have if you consistently anchor in strong currents or heavy seas or for piece of mind if you're forced to anchor in a storm. For my type of boating I don't feel I need it.
 
Agree the location is a challenge. But we do end up anchoring on some very nice but gusty days, and anything which could dampen the back and forth is what I'm after. I've had mixed success with a stern anchor... got up one morning to discover it had dragged and wrapped around one of the drives. Not the end of the world, but a pain.
 
afratki said:
Yeah, the demo video wouldn't work on my phone last night but worked on my computer just now (Windows 10 with Edge).

This would be good to have if you consistently anchor in strong currents or heavy seas or for piece of mind if you're forced to anchor in a storm. For my type of boating I don't feel I need it.
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I don't deliberately seek difficult conditions but they do happen. I'd just like to make things more comfortable without yanking the spotlight off.
 
This is the solution I chose. Purchased a stainless grabber from:

  • UltraMarine West
  • 8700 Warner Avenue #160, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 USA
  • sales@ultramarinewest.com
  • (714) 843.6964
Had to call them to get the SKU for my chain size and placed an order. I made my own bridle using 3 strand nylon line.
My Admiral can unhook the grabber easily, deploy the anchor and attach the grabber. Works and holds very well.
on the bow cleats.
Home Aweigh II



  • Anchor Snubber.jpg
 
Bumping this thread. Still haven't found a solution, still want to find one, especially after last summer, which, when it wasn't pouring rain, was the windiest I can remember in quite a while.

I liked the UltraMarine chain hook well enough that when I saw it at the boat show last year, I bought one. I'm going to have a bit of nylon 3 strand spliced onto it.

But I'm still trying to figure out what to do. Yes, because it's all under the bow pulpit it will take gorilla arms to reach around and hook it on. The problem of there being nothing between the bow cleats and the spotlight remains.

I suppose that an alternative is that finger sized hole where the cover for the anchor locker closes. I could attach it to the cleat, route it through that hole, and then down through the hawse. Hopefully that won't crush the fiberglass around the hole?

Or, the alternative remains to run it back for the forwardmost spring cleat.

I guess I'm going to have to experiment if no one has any better ideas. I have to do something.

Home Aweigh, I like your idea, but it's solving a different problem than I have.
 
Wizzy are you trying to stop the SWINGING of the boat?? To my knowledge that isn't what a snubber/bridle is designed to do. Im pretty sure it is supposed to to keep your rode from rolling over within the rollers which can be quite noisy. I'm not aware of a product that would keep you from swinging back and forth other than a stern anchor of some sort. I wonder if a drogue might be a possible solution??
 
I had a thought early one morning. What about trying to use the lower bow tow bracket to feed a line through and then attach it to the chain. Any thought's on that idea"
 
I have done that. the disadvantage is that one has to launch the dinghy to deploy and to recover the snubber.

I now have a snubber with a chain hook on, and can't wait to start experimenting with it this weekend.
 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, just wondering what people are using as a snubber and if you guys think it's necessary.
 
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