Two Anchors on Platform??

[bobk]

Has anyone worked out a way to permanently store two anchors on the standard Hatt anchor platform? We use a Super Max with 200' 3/8 $g chain for our primary anchor, but I'd also like to have a Danforth H35 with 3/4 nylon up there as well and ready to deploy.

Bob

 

[Traveler 45C]

http://www.standsuremarine.com/id11.html

I’ve been considering this type of setup for Traveler.

 

[Norm Mayer]

I also want two anchors ready to deploy. I have seen it on many boats, but haven't figured out how they deal with two sets of lines. First, I need to find a pulpit!

 

[Traveler 45C]

Yea, there should be a rise in the desire for pulpits after that 'ride 'em cowgirl' post

My plan is to deploy the main anchor line from the anchor locker, the secondary line from a deck box. But if I can figure out how to located both in the locker, that's what I'll do.

 

[Buccaneer]

The 48MYs ahve thta sculpted pulpit that makes side by side rollers impractical, I think. (I have the same question...) What about an over under approach? With the Bruce being "under?" I'd worry, a lot, about chafing...

 

[StratPlan61]

On my last boat I carried the 'emergency' anchor in a set of chocks which hung down from the bow railing. It was locked in and couldn't fall out. I keep the line hooked to it in the nearby deck box. It was handy if I needed it, but not underfoot for boatwashing. I carried a Danforth style anchor in these hanging chocks.
I think I have seen these style chocks in the Defender catalog, or one of them? Stainless steel and relatively cheap!

Bear'
1984 61' My Strategic Plan

 

[Brian Degulis]

On my last boat (55' Sea Ranger) I raised the roller on the end of the pulpit and added a roller closer to the stem and at the same height as the pulpit. So one high and forward and one low and aft. The forward anchor was a Bruce and the aft a Danforth. The Bruce went up and down as normal When lowering the Danforth I sometimes had to shove the stock to one side or the other to keep it from hitting the stock of the Bruce. But it worked very well I'm going to see if I have a photo somewhere.

Brian

 

[bigbill]

i'm not sure about the anchors, but the two lines are easy to make work. just add another anchor line hawsepipe on the opposite side of the pulpit from the original, then put a piece of marine plywood vertical in the anchor locker to divide the two lines as they are fed into the locker. hope this helps. bigbill

 

[bobk]

On my last boat (55' Sea Ranger) I raised the roller on the end of the pulpit and added a roller closer to the stem and at the same height as the pulpit. So one high and forward and one low and aft. The forward anchor was a Bruce and the aft a Danforth. The Bruce went up and down as normal When lowering the Danforth I sometimes had to shove the stock to one side or the other to keep it from hitting the stock of the Bruce. But it worked very well I'm going to see if I have a photo somewhere.

Brian

Brian, I'm looking foward to seeing your pictures. Did you have the rollers off set?

Bob

 

[REBrueckner]

I don't know specifically about a standard Hatteras pulpit, but Brian has one approach: high and forward and low and aft. The other common arrangement is side by side offset rollers...but that's usually for plow type anchors that don't stick out a lot on the sides. With different roller sizes offset side by side, one plow and one fluke type anchor can be located side by side. Check out some larger sailboats with such arrangements and maybe you can take some placement measurements for their anchor sizes/types.

I keep a second anchor stored on deck, it's dedicated line stored in 1/2 my rope locker with it's own deck hole feed...

 

[Brian Degulis]

In a previous post I said I would try to come up with a photo of the set up on my old boat and I don't have one. In the post I described the Danforth anchor as being aft of the Bruce it was actually the other way around the Bruce was aft. The bruce had enough space between the stock and the fluke to sit on the pulley with the stock laying flat on top of the pulpit and the fluke hanging beneath. I made a set of brackets for the pulley on the danforth to raise and extend the pulley forward the bracket was angled back so the flukes of the danforth would set up against them when raised. This may not be making sense it's hard to describe I wish I had a Photo.

Brian

 

[Angela]

I just noticed a boat this evening on the dock that has a two-anchor set up. It's a liveaboard trawler. He's got a pulpit, a little smaller than mine, with one anchor coming up through the slit in the middle of the pulpit, and the other anchor in a bracket screwed down to the top of the pulpit. I'll get down there and take a photo this week.

 

[bobk]

I just noticed a boat this evening on the dock that has a two-anchor set up. It's a liveaboard trawler. He's got a pulpit, a little smaller than mine, with one anchor coming up through the slit in the middle of the pulpit, and the other anchor in a bracket screwed down to the top of the pulpit. I'll get down there and take a photo this week.

Thanks Angela, that might be a workable solution for a Hatt platform too.

Bob

 

[Paul45c]

I've seen a lot of convertibles (Hatt & others) that have a hawse pipe for chain right up front of the windlass, and then another for line to the side of it. My setup is like that. I abandoned all-chain for my boat in favor of 3/4" line, so I'm using that one to the side, but it seems it would be workable to have all chain on say a Delta or CQR or something off the pulpit going through the chain hawse pipe, and then all line coming up through the rope hawse (divided inside the locker, as one poster pointed out), and then you could have the spare (probably Fortress for ease of deployment/light weight) chocked down on the deck.

 

[Angela]

Here ya go!! Incredibly late, but as promised. Bob, if you want the full size version of the photos, send me your email address.

 

[Diver Down]

BobK,
A year or so ago, my wife and I saw a Hatt MY at the Sheraton marina in New Bern, NC that had a custom built dual anchor pulpit. Very nice looking unit. Sorry I don't remember the boat name but I believe she was about 70 footer (really a 60 something with a custom cockpit). Maybe someone on this forum from New Bern can help with an ID on this boat or some more info on this particular pulpit.

 

[bobk]

Thanks Ange, that might work. I'll check it out in the morning. I have a verticle GM windlass so an offset roller should be no problem.

Bob

 

[Akyla]

FYI both of the anchor rollers in Angela's pics look to be Windline products. Fairly easy to source. I have used them before and they held up very well in daily anchoring use.