Pardey Cruising Tip: Bow Roller

TheSailingChannel presents Cruising Tips by Lin and Larry Pardey from their DVD, Get Ready to Cruise. The bow roller is a critical part of any cruising boat's anchoring system. In this tip, Larry describes the proper way to install a bow roller so it can handle the massive sideway strain your anchor rhode can generate. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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TheSailingChannel.TV Cruising Tip: "Bow Roller" From Lin and Larry Pardey's Get Ready to Cruise DVD To enjoy cruising, you have to feel secured anchor and often neglected part of a successful ground tackle system is the Bow Roller. One of the problem that most bow rollers, is they are not built strong and have to take a side load when the chain pushes on here. So this side load is difficult to support although you could make the casting very, very large or the weldment very large. The best way to do and is to and is to put retaining bolt in, such as this, put that in and tighten it up with the wrench and that supports this from bending out, it also stops the chain from jumping out in extreme conditions. If that does jump out, it ends up over here sowing into the deck and it's very, very serious stuff. These bolts, there are a five eights bolt here, a five eights bolt here and a half inch bolt that goes through there. So this is really, solidly fixed to the Bowsprit which is a -- as you can see a solid timber, it takes all the side strength. Another attachment we have on the roller, modification is a hole here it to put a snatch block. Now this is a fairlead when we use a parachute anchor. So the line, nylon lines, three-quarter-inch nylon line goes through here out the jib net and up to the parachute anchor, with this roller shaft it cuts down the friction and we have got a strong attachment with the good fairlead so you don't get any chafe on the nylon line.