Accomodating the Raya

[Silkie]

Still keeping it under the forehatch for now but it's about time to arrange something more convenient. I've never been that keen on anchors stowed permanently on the bow roller and on a wee boat like Silkie the Raya looks particularly outlandish IMO.



It's also quite an awkward shape to chock on deck and would inevitably leave a sharp corner sticking up to catch on sheets, furling line etc., in any configuration I've been able to come up with so far anyway.

So... Ive been thinking about this, which I will admit is somewhat unconventional but seems to work functionally.





Any thoughts?

[aquaplane]

Maybe it looks outlandish stowed ready to launch because it's different to the norm?

I think it looks unsymetrical and outlandish off one side. It's going to take some chocking to stop it knocking your rubbing strake to buggery too. I can see where you are coming from by having it flush so the sheets don't catch.

Leave it on the front and wait till everyone else has one so they all match?

HTH.

[Nick]

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I would leave it on the bow if it is stable and doesn't bang about in a seaway.

I dream about an anchor stowed permanently on the bow roller.

If she buries her nose in a big sea the anchor could be ripped off the side like that IMO.

[claymore]

just chuck the bloody thing overboard

[DaveS]

I think I would agree with Nick that stowage on the bow roller is probably best. It does look a bit odd, but that's just because it's (currently?) unusual. I would want it well lashed down, however.

A thought occurs. With the anchor well secured on the bow, could you shackle a block to that hole at the top to take the tack of a cruising chute - making use of it as a sort of mini bowsprit?

Another thought occurs. With the anchor over the bow does it increase your LOA with a possible affect on your berthing charge?

[Silkie]

With the anchor over the bow does it increase your LOA with a possible affect on your berthing charge?

Well it would in Balvicar but probably not in Dunstaffnage.

I did think that reaction to the sidestow would be universally negative since we are a pretty conservative bunch as shown by almost every anchor thread ever. However I would think that the anchor is more vulnerable on the roller; imagine the forces falling off a wave and stuffing the bow and flat of the fluke into the next one although perhaps your boat doesn't do that kind of thing very often. In such an event the anchor stowed on the side presents almost no surface area to the sea.

There's certainly more surface area presented to a green slap across the port bow but the plough (lashed to chocks as the Raya would be) is, if anything, more vulnerable and hasn't carried away yet, touch wood.

I bet if I painted a brown stripe to align with the rubbing strake along the "outside" of the fluke you'd barely notice it from more than 20 yards away.

[puddock]

Just get a second one and lob it on the other side to balance things up ............ it'll look great, trust me !