There are one hundred and more things that need attention before we can leave the boat for the Winter; jobs that will hopefully have Lerryn Lady in good shape to take off again across the Ionian next year. One of these jobs is cleaning the anchor locker and inspecting the anchor chain. Here you can see us running the chain out on deck in five metre lengths ( Greg is up the end there) we have 60 metres of chain and 45 metres of anchor rope. It's actually very nice to walk on barefoot! We cleaned the chain and re-calibrated it in 5 and 10metre lengths so whomever is up front can easily see how much chain is released at any one time ( usually my job - letting it out - and when we're ready to up anchor it's me up there bringing it all back in again manually, I enjoy doing it).
Clean anchor chain.
This is the anchor chain back in situ in the anchor locker which we cleaned out and re-painted with bilge paint ( nice grey huh?). For you non-sailors, this is all up in the pointy bit of our boat - the Bow. The anchor itself is kept outside, all the time, lashed to the very front of the Bow ready to be deployed. We've anchored in many beautiful bays and harbours this year thanks to this bit of kit.
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