Anchor Chain Markers

[boatbod]

Wire ties, loosely attached every 5 fathoms has worked well for me.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by tkeithlu

We take the simple route of painting the chain by a color code. The down sides are that chain is more difficult to completely paint (to many corners for the spray can to reach) and it does eventually wear off. We do limit it to every 50 feet, because in even very shallow water we put out that much rode.

We do the same.

Orange every 10 meters; white every 30 (which we consider one "shot")

So two orange marks = 20 meters

Two white and an orange = 70 meters

etc.

Works well and is still quite visible even when the paint is well worn and flaking off.

Previously used plastic inserts but these kept falling out.