Hi,
We recently purchased a Catalina 36, 2006. The boat came with two anchor rollers and two anchors. The problem is that the anchor locker DOOR was made for one rode, not two. The door closes (crunch!) on a second rode.
I've seen one item in technotes by someone who built and installed a scoop-shaped stainless piece over the forward end of the locker door, and presumably cut away the fiberglass door where the second rode needs to run.
The image shown looks like an upgrade to a flat door. The boat I have has a moulded, non-skid door not so easy to retrofit. I have ideas that involve creating a moulded, non-skid scoop to fit over the existing contour...
But is this a problem that someone has solved? And is making available a retrofit product?... Alernatively, is there a market for such a product?
Jeff Solway
Jeff, if I remember correctly, we do have an article on converting the anchor locker for two anchors, but I don't recall the details. Have a look in the Technical - Upgrades library and see if that helps. If not, then this is certainly a topic that we'd like to have a well documented article on in JibSheet. Would you keep us in mind should you proceed with the mod???
Larry Brandt
S/V High Flight #2109
Pacific Northwest, PDX-based
2002 C-36 mkII SR/FK M35B
Hi Larry,
Thanks for your comment, and sorry it has taken me months to get back to this! I've seen the article you mentioned in technical notes about someone who built a box-type stainless cowl, mounted it on the forward corner of the locker hatch, and cut away the fiberglass below, leaving a proper space for two rodes.
However, the hatch in question was flat. our catalina 36mkII has a moulded (and quite curvacious) hatch door. I've now taken the door home and mocked up a curved add-on in cardboard... after thinking about it all last summer. I will get some pictures up and provide a link shortly. all in all, it looks like a complex project, just short of building a new moulded door.
now I'm going to have another look at cutting just enough away from the lip of the present hatch so there is enough room to run the second rode off its normal route, alongside the primary, just so I can close the door. then when setting the first anchor and the door is open, i'd shift the second rode over to clear the primary rode. but there must be enough cut away to be able to set the second anchor and close the hatch door. got to see this all on the water... and it's still cold in toronto!
I'm not at all sure this will work... which is probably why I started thinking about this in the first place.
anyone else with ideas?
Jeff
Jeff, before you cut, here's a question. Your boat came with two anchors, and from what I understand you want to have the second rode fair lead to the locker, too. But: do you regularly use two anchors? Before you cut and paste your anchor locker door, what you do regularly that requires two anchors? Just askin'...
Stu Jackson, C34IA Secretary, C34 #224, 1986, SR/FK, M25 engine, Rocna 10 (22#)