Windlass Chain Sleeve Cover

[sailorboy1]

Now that my windlass is back together and working I still have an issue.

The rope doesn't really like to wrap and drop into the anchor well. And it slips a little in the chain gipsy. But I can not use the rope drum as then I don't have way to feed in back though the hole into the anchor well again.

The answer is an all chain rode, but in the meantime as there is an only a little time in the season:

Any reason I can not just leave the cover off the chain pipe sleeve/hole so I can use my rope drum and then be able to feed the rope back into the the well and then put the chain back in the gipsy?

[James S]

Not that I can see....more water in, but thats all I can figure.

[svHyLyte]

Leaving the cover off is one solution but another might be to temporarily replace the bolts with Fast-Pins sized to allow the detent ball to engage the threads in the lower casing. See BargainBoatParts.com - Positive Locking (Push Button) Type Fast Pin . Then, should the need arise, you can quickly and easily pull the cover or rotate it out of the way.

FWIW...

[sailorboy1]

Surprised something involving anchoring only has gotten 2 responses so just to move it back into viewing...............