Our beautiful boat has become a beast of burden. She came in with 1/4 tanks and fighting weight accoutrements. Now she has full diesel and water tanks, a dive compressor and tanks, a larger stern anchor and rode, a pickup truck full of stuff, a dinghy and outboard, and now... 300' of 3/8" high test chain. Amazingly she is still trimmed out and sporting paint above the waterline. I can't say enough for the carrying capacity of this boat, everything just disappears with her tremendous storage. It will be interesting to see how she sails fully loaded.

We have a 66 lbs Claw as our secondary bow anchor but we have purchased an 88 lbs Rocna as our primary. The anchor meets us in Miami but I wanted to get the chain here where it is easy to load up. Jack at Rope Inc. is a good source for rope and chain in Fort Lauderdale. Hard trying to get a complete rig with > 4000 lbs WLL but I think we've done it (Rocna to 1/2" galvanized shackle to 300' of 3/8" high test). This puts about 700 lbs up on the forward bridge deck, not optimal for sailing but great for anchoring.

Now back to dragging 475 lbs of chain across the dock.