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Old 05-05-2015, 10:55   #1
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Mostly chain with a little rope...
I was explaining anchoring to someone today and used an example where I needed 110' of rode to achieve 5x, but only had 100' of chain so we let out 10' of rope as well. And it occurred to me I don't know the pro's and con's of having a short 10' length of rope rode at the end of a length of chain. Knee-jerk I would be tempted to just shorten the rode so it was all chain, but I have no actual basis for that decision. On the other hand, maybe it would be better to let out a bit more so all the chain was sitting on the bottom and we were swinging on the rope. Or maybe it doesn't matter.

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