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Well, I found a local skipper to bring her back in the end... here she is on her dry stack this afternoon after her crossing from Jersey. #newboatfeeling!

Right! There just aren't enough! But fear not, I have some on order 😉👍

But where are the RODHOLDERS 😋

Hi Andy , good luck with your new boat, glad its arrived safely , lots of fun to come ! Colin.

The skipper took it gently at around 25kts. It took him just over 4 hours. Need to check how much fuel is left in the tanks as I didn't remember to check during the handover.

Lovely boat, the Atlantis have a great reputation. Tight lines!!

I agree with Steve and would add, rope with a twisted strand always needs to be coiled in the same way to provide a memory, bit like stowing a hose, it goes away better if the hose goes away with the same twist or same handed person doing the retrieving. Discipline when putting the rope back in the locker is the key, whenever I have put it away badly in a choppy sea I nearly always have a loop that forms under the deck when releasing. Time consuming and tiresome but necessary. If the rope is stowed correctly it should look like a polo mint from above, then the chain can drop in the middle. Most boats up to 7.5 mtr boats with vee lockers are not suited to the deep anchoring we do, therefore the rope does not have enough drop to coil itself as it comes in off the gypsy, hence we hand stow, especially a horizontal gypsy which the majority are. The vertically dropping rope off a vertical gypsy stows better in small lockers. I fitted one on my last boat it was much better and the motor is not in the way either. I coil the rope in the same way Steve does, where the rope is tied off to the bollard that is always slightly troublesome as it has been twisted. Plait has less memory and therefore better, but some gypsies do not like plait because it reduces in width as it stretches so gripping it can be an issues at full load, make sure it is compatible with your gypsy before purchase. I use nylon 3 strand and it is fine, poly is a poorer quality generally and used by commercial fisherman on pots etc and not as good for our type of use. I was listening to your troubles out at sea, seems like you were very unlucky, a string of loose pots or nets maybe to have drifted so far, it would not matter if you had tripped your anchor with cable ties in that situation. I tend to turn my rope around after a couple of years to give it even wear. I am sure you know all this Ben, the answer is for those members reading and taking on advice. The next choice is what type or pattern of anchor and how much chain.

I use multiplat with a windlass, works great no tangles, one key difference, as the rope comes out through the windlass I lay out it out by hand. One finger on the retrieve button the other hand in the locker putting the rope in strips. There is 200m of rope plus 15m chain in the locker. I don't think using 3 core is going to solve that problem of tangles it doesn't lay very well due to it's memory.

She's not slow... 😁

Wouldn't happen to be an Atlantis would it?

Had the privilege of loosing my anchor at the weekend 😡😡 now got to renew rope chain and anchor .....i have 8 plat rope going through my Lewmar windlass on the boat at the moment (inherited with the boat) but have found sometimes when I'm on free fall from the bow anchor locker it has got bunched up and stops half way down also sometimes on the retrieve it bunches up and gets caught up in the locker .......so I'm going to go 3 strand my question is whats everyone using polly or nylon thers so many different views on it speaking to people today so thought I would ask the question on here ????? What I want out of it is to not bunch up in the anchor locker like the 8 plat as I don't feed it in by hand its feed in by the windlass ......whats your thoughts 🤔🤔🤔