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today the project is to put the new

anchor chain on the boat so I need to

find the end of it load it in two

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so this stuff weighs about a pound in

half per foot and I've got a hundred

feet so that's 150 pounds of Steel right

there and I test

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so I got this TV cable that probably

dates back to the 1990s and it probably

was put on a couple of owners ago today

it comes off because I don't watch TV

and it's probably not even a good cable

anymore so let's cut it there we go

now I don't have to worry about that

getting in the way

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you probably can't see it on the camera

there but we're now at the official end

of the road the chain is kind of tied

off to a bit of rope which attaches to

the boat and prevents it from spooling

out entirely and losing the anchor so

now we need to go into the anchor Walker

down below and cut it cut it free I'm

filming this at the same time as a

episode 28 right now and letting the

engine paint dry but we'll come back to

episode 28 once I'm done with the

episode 29 you can tell how little I

come back here because it's so crowded

and dusty so the anchor kind of ties off

onto this braided line right here and

then it looks like I've got another 25

feet of line

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guess I'm gonna have to pull it down

here back down put that free once I get

it free I'll be good to go I want to

give want to give that line a bath too

before I put it back in here so we're

gonna have to pull it back up through

there not to the deck you'll notice I

have another chain going up the other

side that's because I have two anchors

one is fully rope Road when I say all

rope I mean like most of it is rope

I see 120 feet or so of rope but the

first 15 or so or chain yeah if you've

never been inside your anchor Locker

this is what indeed so I've got my

scissors here I'm going to now this is

actually the reason why you don't just

go with a hard connection on your anchor

chain because if this were an emergency

situation I need to be able to cut

through and get off my anchor for

example if a uncontrollable boat is

coming right at me I can just let out

all my chain tie a fender onto it so it

doesn't sink and then cut it loose that

way I can come back for it we're and

everything's safe but

I just realized I didn't film any of

that but you know there's the aftermath

I got it cut off there I'm gonna try to

feed that up and out of the locker now

Oh walking my only light source there we

go cool that is out so now I'll need to

get the entire rope out give it a bath

and then we'll come back in a bit and do

the other part of it so that's why I

hate to replace the entire chain because

there's a lot of places like that on it

and that's not gonna work for me so

let's get the Rope out that was a

hundred feet so if worse came to worse I

could theoretically let out over 300

feet of anchor looks like that might be

the the end of it well cool

let's go back down below and check it

out make sure that is actually the end

of it so it looks like these lines are

just tied together which makes sense you

don't really need them separate but all

the chain is going to pile up right here

on the right side of the flocker so I

might need to reorganize this side the

port side of my locker to make sure that

the chain has enough space because the

new chain is a little bit bigger than

the old chain but not by much so we'll

see

all right that's fine okay so for bath

I'm there actually well I don't want to

put a wet road back in the locker so I'm

gonna let it dry out trip it and in the

meantime we can take this off figure out

how I'm going to what I'll need to do

now is get the new chain nothing onto

the bow at least what I might do is a

while that's drying feed it all on up

onto the boat through the Gypsy

but I just want to get it out of the car

and yeah let's try that

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well I'm gonna have to wait for the

weather to clear up for this to really

dry out but in the meantime what I'm

gonna do is I'm going to go ahead and

attach the rope to the new chain and

then attach the chain to the anchor so

we're gonna do a standard change a rope

this place on the end of the chain here

before I get to four on this I should go

get some tape to tape these ends I've

got my electrical tape scissors

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well you know it's not perfect but I'm

ok with it

I got him healthy and offers me say if

it'll even melt though right now it's

kind of wet

this might be something that I have to

wade into

to do until it's dry so I'm going to

leave it out and call that the episode

thank you guys for watching and stay dry

wash your hands all that

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