Sail Life - DIY Dyneema snubber pendant & bye bye Ava
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I got a good little laugh at the Nanny part. My daughters degree is World History with a Masters as well. She was teaching High School, but she is now a Nanny. She is making almost 30k more as a Nanny than as a teach. Less headaches and better benefits. Nuts honestly.
I admire Mads so much he is humble and wicked smart!
Hi Mads, Sv Helacious here! By now you know that dyneema doesn't stretch, which is the whole point of a snubber- providng elasticty into the chain system. We have been using a "deck snubber" for the past year and it has worked really well. Our boat is 18T so I use a 3/4" Nystron line, which is an arborist rope -nylon core for stretch and a super-tough poly cover. It has a spliced in thimble eye on the business end, which I attached to the chain with a dyneema soft shackle/klemheist arrangement. Never slips, easy on and off, no threading through a link. The "deck" part comes next: we run the snubber back to a mid-ship cleat, giving us about 22'/6.5m of line, then over the bow roller and the connection to the chain is about 5'/1.5m away, but still out of the water. This way it doesn't get all slimey and we can keep an eye on the connection. So essentially we have 30'/9m of snubber which makes us ride very easily even in a severe chop. If it really kicks up big waves I can ease out another 10'/3m from mid-ship. Highly recommended, learned from an Aussie, SV Razorbill.
My snubber is a length of three strand nylon with an eye spliced in one end and a chain hook spliced onto the other end. It seems to work OK, but so far I have only been using that style of snubber for 28 years.I say that style because I have had to replace the galvanized chain hook a couple of times. Time will tell if it is adequate.
I use a 48" long Dyneema soft shackle attached to the chain with a Prusik hitch. The soft shackle is closed through an eye on the nylon snubber line. The Priusik hitch is easily removed after heavy loading. A Klemhiest hitch can be used or a simple cow hitch in light weather. I actually use two soft shackles each attached to a nylon snubber forming a "bridle". No single point of failure.
Flight 571 made me spit my tea! Bravo for the deep dry joke pull.
Last time I was in the BVI I ended up anchoring late in Low Bay opposite Beef. Got HAMMERED by the BEEF/VG ferry wake the next morning as I was contemplating making coffee. I'd run to Gorda sound same as you did.
We have used a home made dyneema "dog bone" to replace the chain hook for over 5 years. We attach long snubbers to the loops. It has held us in 64 knot winds, it will work great for you.
Mads so excited about adding to his "snubber collection", is hilarious
I also have a bit of a snubber collection, but they ALL have some elasticity in them. I would have thought that Dyneema is a poor choice, because it has no stretch in it.
WRT attaching the snubber to the chain. We use a 5mm soft shackle to a bridle and done so for the last two seasons in the Med. This was done after multiple shackle and chain hook failures. We are a 44ft cat and have sat through 40 knot winds and are always on anchor. Will now always use The soft shackle. Cheers
You always make my Sunday!
Mads, Once Dyneema has undergone it's Initial stretch it has as much shock absorption value as the anchor chain it's connected to. Which is Zero. The only way to turn Dyneema into Snubber Capable is to Thread as large of a diameter piece of Surgical or soft rubber hose down the core of the braided strand Dyneema using your largest fid. (or any other braided rope) Once the hose is inside it will compress when tension is put on the rope.
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Two things that I find invaluable for anchoring. 1) anchor stopper 2) soft shackle for attaching the lightweight snubber to chain. I use a very lightweight snubber because it stretches better (which is the whole idea). If I am worried that we might have to leave in the middle of the night I won’t put any snubber on. The chain stopper is sure beefy and can handle almost any load that the 1/2” chain can. If we have to leave quickly for whatever reason. It is only a matter of starting the engine, and start winching in the chain even with the stopper engaged, the chain can be retrieved ie one way so no load on the windlass. Hope you find this interesting.
Welcome to the BVI. I've lived there for 14 years, and have recently returned with my recently acquired Contest 38s. There has been a profound change in the BVI during the last 20 years and that has been cause by two factors. First, the explosion of the charter boat fleet. One operator alone has over 900 boats under contract. For the most part the people who charter have some boating experience but would rather tie to a mooring ball than trust an anchor. Hence the filling of nearly every good anchorage with mooring balls which cost $40 to $60/ night. For cruisers that is an impossible burden but for those there for a week, well what hey, it's only money. The second reason is the influx and influence of the mega money people. Not only do they come but also build huge estates, they have large staffs which need housing, and other living factors. That in turn drives the price of apartments, food, and services up.
Thanks for another great video. Watching as usual from Queensland, Australia.
You really know the lines and knots by now...great job on that DIY thing...