New Anchor Bracket

[Bushwacker]

For tools, if you have a flexible extension for a Dremel tool, they make a metal disk coated w/abrasive that will just barely fit thru the hole and it'll chew the wood away pretty easily, especially if there is much rot. Sounds like the wood in yours is in pretty good shape; mine had large chunks missing on one side, and initial fill didn't work . . it just leaked out thru the gaps! If you hit it with some alcohol, the wood should dry out pretty quickly in that California climate! Check the post I did a couple years ago on making up a cored plug so you can just fill the whole thing with thickened epoxy. I ended up with a soft wood core for a pilot hole that makes it easy to redrill for the brass tube (provided you have a 1" dia. metal cutting bit!

I wouldn't seal the scuppers up for a couple of reasons:
1. If you ever take a big wave over the stern you'll wish you had them! You want to get that water out quickly before another wave hits and if you can get on plane, they'll suck out a lot of water real fast. Also with your light motor, your boat should be easily self bailing at rest.
2. Like you say, they come in real handy when you wash down the deck! If you can wash off fish blood before it dries, it's a whole lot easier to clean up.
3. My scuppers lasted about 25 years after initial replacement, and I didn't do anything then but seal them with Life Caulk. Now that they're all sealed up w/epoxy, they should last forever and shouldn't leak into the hull, even if the brass tubes rot out!

[seafari25]

Looking good Denny!

That's the way to go with the anchor. I'll be looking in to doing that down the road.

...and I agree with not filling in the scuppers. Didn't you read my post on the 25 resto thread Gillie? I've never seen rain like that before and the little bit of water that followed the ladies to the cabin wasn't enough to kick my pump in. Also If you ever dock your boat for extended periods of time without full cover, It's nice to know that you're not relying on a pump.

[fdheld34]

Wow Denny..talk about some engineering underside...looks like you could pull an oil tanker with your anchor roller!!!!
-FRED

[rhody98]

Very nice Denny. Nothing worse than dragging anchor in the middle of the night, you wont be doing that!

And the new hawsepipe position is still forward of the bulkhead?

hang on to them scuppers gilly

[McGillicuddy]

Thanks again, guys. I'll start another scupper thread to redirect this one back to Denny's anchor roller.

[Bushwacker]

And the new hawsepipe position is still forward of the bulkhead?

Thanks Rhody - yea, the hawsepipe is about 6-8" fwd of bulkhead; would have liked to have had it a couple of inches further forward but didn't have much clearance between all the hardware in that direction. May need some sort of a net covering the bulkhead opening to keep all the rope in locker in rough seas! Probably should have mounted the bracket a little further forward, but didn't have much vertical clearance underneath for the bolts as it is. Still better than original location; it was too far forward so when hauling the anchor, all the line would pile up on the flared part of bow, since hawsepipe was at least a foot fwd of center of rope locker. Now, with all that chain, I can actually haul the anchor in faster, since I don't have to "push on a rope" to get last of anchor rode down into the rope locker!