Having a hawse pipe over the anchor locker and then having the anchor either in chocks on deck or on a roller bracket makes anchoring a piece of cake! If you install a roller bracket and center cleat, you should probably put some reinforcement under the deck because the bracket can put some serious loads on the deck if you anchor offshore in rough conditions, which I have done when diving. Here's a post of the installation I did: http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...anchor+bracket

Second pic shows another creative style of anchor bracket!

Skunk Works
 

Gezzz Denny, What the heck kind of Kelly Johnson Skunkworks, Pratt and Whitney Design engineer are ya'? That there is an 81 millimeter mortar tube Dougie has disguised as a Bruce Anchor holder. A couple of air burst frag rounds and those Pesky Inboard Guys leave you alone when yur sittin on a good dive spot.
Plus when Dougie goes to the Anna Maria Yacht Club fer brunch, he can't harpoon the Admiral's Garwood with his anchor pok'in out in the front and make it look like he drug a Chain Saw across the transom mahogany. Sometimes I think he operates the boat by Braille!

That's funny!! Just load the mortar with exploding cans of paint like in the movie "Kelly's Heros" and lob a few on the deck of those high priced Bayliners at the AMI yacht club. Would be great fun!!!

Glad I never had to use my anchor..When I finished the restore on my Tsunami,several years ago, I put the anchor and a few hundred feet of line in the forward compartment.God forbid I ever have to get to it.Getting past all the boxes and bags of tackle, rain gear and other stuff in the cuddy would not be fun.

I keep thinkkng about getting it up on deck where it can be reached in an emergency.looks like a good project for the summer.We never anchor, and are always trolling, and much of the time we're in 300 to 500 feet of water so I might not have enough line anyway.
I do however use my trolling bags quite often, when trolling in rough stuff,and would use them as well if we had an emergency, to help keep the bow into the waves

[QUOTE=bigeasy1;236867] . . . I keep thinking about getting it up on deck where it can be reached in an emergency.looks like a good project for the summer. . . /QUOTE]

Good idea John! A hawse pipe and anchor chocks are pretty easy additions. Although I've never lost power in a busy channel or off a lee shore, I believe a quickly deployable anchor is a good safety feature in such a situation!

This worked ok for a lot of years but I would still rather have an uncluttered foredeck with an easy to access anchor... I came up with some alternate designs for it but nothing that is worth building yet.
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Yeah - I know its pretty dirty but I'm not worrying about that til the transom and decks are finished.

Here's how I kept it on the Fishalot II, my previous 20' Seafari.
Down in the locker was about 10' of chain and 300' of 1/2" nylon anchor line. I had a stern anchor under the lounge seat, with another 10' of chain, and 200' of 3/8" nylon anchor line. I also had a 3rd anchor with about 6' of chain and 150' of 3/8" line that usually stayed on the boat, but was the anchor line I took off my wife's 17' Carolina Skiff when we sold it.

I can't do a pulpit or roller because I'd smash the outboard on the small boat when tied at the float. So I did this. Finished it Saturday. Need to find 2" aluminum cleats.

I wrote a post about the Anchor Suit in the general forum. I think it's a great option.