cameron318•17d agoProlific Poster

Overheard a marina manager say something about anchor chains that stuck with me

I was grabbing coffee at the dock in Port Townsend last week and heard this old-timer telling a new guy that "your chain is only as good as the last 3 feet." Been thinking about that ever since. He was talking about how the section near the anchor takes the worst beating from rocks and sand. Has anyone else had a chain fail right at the connection point instead of somewhere in the middle?

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ninaw8817d ago

Oh wow, that's wild to think about! I always figured the chain would wear evenly or snap somewhere random in the middle. So the last few feet near the anchor basically take all the abuse from grinding on the bottom?

rowan_hayes17d ago

Yeah exactly, had that happen on my rig a few years back!