Kaimusailing

I awoke and got ready to commute to the boatyard in the little D4 dinghy. At some point I noticed Kaimu was facing upstream in the ebb tide current. That shouldn't be, she should be hanging from the stern anchor. I found the stern anchor rode was shredded only a short way up. My guess is that a power boat cut the rode with its propeller. Now Kaimu could foul her anchors again when the current changed . I was planning a trip to Hawaii and needed to set another stern anchor.
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I checked Craig's List for anchors and there were a few but overpriced. Same on eBay. I wandered over to Doc's Chop Shop, the used boat parts vendor in the boatyard. Doc was in town and wouldn't return till later in the day, but there was a pallet of 3 anchors. One, an old CQR looked like it might fit the bill.
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Later when Doc returned he brought me to another pallet that was covered with a tarp and had more anchors and chain on it. We haggled over pricing and I ended up with a Danforth Deepset Plow and 50 feet of chain for $200. No shipping, in fact Doc brought everything down to the dinghy dock with a forklift. When I returned aboard Kaimu I just left the anchor and chain in the dinghy.
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The next day I began putting things together in the morning before the heat and humidity climbed up into the triple digits. A 5/8" shackle fastened the anchor to a 3/8" swivel on the end of the chain. The other end was shackled to itself around the stern crosstube. The chain was 5/16", same as the primary anchor chain.
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I wanted to slack off the main anchors at the bow, take the new anchor as far as I could upstream, drop it, then set it by winching in the main anchors, pulling the boat forward. I needed to do this on the flood tide so I waited most of the day for time and tide to pass.
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We were in a heat wave that sent temperatures up over 100 degrees in the shade in the boatyard. Aboard Kaimu it was not so bad if my sunshade created a place to sit out of the direct sunlight. As the day progressed the shadowed area ended up in the middle of the deck with nowhere to sit. I drank a lot of water.
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When the flood tide was beginning to exert itself I took the anchor and chain out as far as I could and deployed. Doc had advised me to put a buoy on a line to the anchor so that I could retrieve it if the rode parted. Also I could disengage the anchor, retrieve the bow anchors, and return and retrieve the stern anchor over the bow using the windlass.
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The windlass. Simpson Lawrence Sprint 1000 that had cost me about $800 in parts so far this year. I had let out about 20 feet of rode before setting the stern anchor and now began hauling it in to set the stern anchor. The rode kept jamming and I thought it would be a long long day pulling in a few inches at a time and prying the rode out of the gypsy's teeth. The line was supposed to peel off and drop below into the rope locker, but it kept jamming. There is a part called a fleming or stripper that helps peel the line off the gypsy. I could see it was broken and the fleming itself was trying to go around with the gypsy. Fortunately this windlass has a drum that can be used to haul in line. There is a clutch that releases the gypsy. I shifted the line to the drum and released the clutch. Now I hauled in as much as I could, about 10-15 feet, and the stern anchor was set.
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I did not go ashore at all and stayed aboard keeping anchor watch. Everything stayed put, but there was only light winds, not much stress on the anchors.
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The next day I went ashore very uncomfortable, sweaty, dirty, and took a shower to wash off the debris from anchoring. I went online to slspares.com, a UK company that sells parts for obsolete Simpson Lawrence products. There I found the fleming available for a reasonable price, but shipping was more than the part. I googled the part number and found one on eBay for $22 including shipping and ordered it.
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The image is from the UK website and is the fleming for the windlass.