no anchor nest drain

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Jake B

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so I have not used the anchor on the 22 yet but plan to during the halibut season coming up. my concern is that there is no drain for the nest on my boat and and pretty sure that will trap a fair amount of water. I am planning on installing or glassing one in but will not happen until after the fishing season in June sometime. I remember reading when doing this just to make sure it is as close to the bottom of the nest as possible right?

and my second question how much rope do these nest hold? I have 600' of line coming and plan on using all of it. it just doesn't seem like the big of compartment for that much rope.
 
Jake there is a strong thread on anchor locker drains. You will probably find your answer as to how to put one in there. 600ft is a whole lot to fit in a 22. And, you will want some chain so that adds even more volume. We carry 35 ft of chain and 300 ft of 1/2 three strand and the locker is really full. Unless you are going to be up in Alaska a lot you may find you can get by with a lot less than 600 ft. I think most people boating around here carry between 200-300 ft of line and 20-40 ft of chain.
 
I agree with C Cakes. That is a bunch of rode and chain. If you are pulling by hand anyway, I would skip the locker all together, starting out with the line on a hose reel and then having your number two crank it back onto the reel as you pull it up. You can still use the bow roller and delay your locker drain without dealing with all of the water up in the nose.
 
thanks and i am toying with the garden hose roller idea as well. and while 600' seems like a lot of rope I will be anchoring in 2-300' of water halibut fishing. I will be using a buoy retrieve system also. I read the nest drain post through the search function on here also, I guess I was more just surprised that there wasn't one on the boat.
 
Jake B":1o0yofv9 said:
I guess I was more just surprised that there wasn't one on the boat.
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Reading this, I went back and looked at photos of the bow of a 1990 22 Cruiser that I'd looked at when 22 hunting, and I see there is no sign of an anchor locker drain on that one either. So maybe they "came along" later, or were an option on earlier boats (?) I hadn't noticed that before.

Sunbeam
 
My 1987 (started in the mold 1/7/'87), one of the very first of the modern style 22' Cruisers, doesn't have a drain tube.

Since I boat almost exclusively in fresh water, I've resisted installing one, and the rode dries out easily in the v-berth, especially in Redding, Ca.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
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