I am mounting a SeaTiger windlass on the foredeck of my 38 ft LeComte. I want to have a chain pipe running from the deck down in to the locker below the v berth.
Does anyone have a photo of a chain pipe instlalled in a V berth? I am curious how to attach the top of the pipe to the deck?
Chain pipe
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Before actually mounting your windlass or hawse pipe try lowering some chain down the route it will be going on the way to your locker. Chain has a tendency to pile up in formations that defy gravity. And a hawse pipe that has bends in it can jam if there isn't sufficient chain fall after it to keep it under tension. When we need custom configurations at the boatyard we have a metal fabricator bend the tubing to a model we make and then weld a plate to it which beds on the deck. Good luck with the project.
Dave Finnegan
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My drop from the chain gypsey to the locker is vertical and straight, so hopefully that will make for the best possible arrangement. The only problem I can see is if my locker is not high enough in which case I will have to send someone below to knock the chain down. I have 300 feet of 3/8 in BBB chain, so it could make quite a pile.
The way my Sampson Lawrence Seatiger covers the top of the pipe, so I am limited as to what kind of flange I can have on the top of the pipe above deck and below the windlass.
The way my Sampson Lawrence Seatiger covers the top of the pipe, so I am limited as to what kind of flange I can have on the top of the pipe above deck and below the windlass.