Braid for Anchor Rode

[Silkie]

...to attach a braid rode to the anchor??

Was this just a slip of the keyboard or are you really planning to do away with chain altogether?

If you are in fact extending your anchor chain with rope why choose a braided rope? I have 30m of 12mm octoplait spliced to 30m of 0.25 inch chain and this works well for me. I don't have a windlass and the main consideration for me is that the octoplait makes a neat splice which runs easily through my narrow hawse pipe.

OTOH hard eyes with shackles make it easy to quickly extend your anchor rode though I believe that the rope can have a tendency to twist out of the thimble under heavy load.

To answer your question though - Yes (probably)!

[Nick]

I think you must mean the 8-strand nylon known variously as octoplait, multiplait or anchorplait.

This is very nice to handle and easy to splice to chain. Either 12mm or 14mm will splice nicely to 5/8 chain - I would prefer 14mm I think.

To see how to do it look HERE

You can get 14mm multiplait from a seller on Ebay for £1.40 a metre, which is an extremely good deal. Seems like good stuff - I bought 50m from him. Check it out HERE