Examining the port side, the anchor chain can be seen to hang down from the hawsepipe a foot or so and then abruptly end without an anchor. |
We accordingly returned to the deck and summoned hawsepipe and the doctor to our assistance. |
With this design, water passing up the hawsepipe went to the main deck, rather than below deck. |
When the cleat tried to go through the hawsepipe, it jammed and ripped a section of the hull completely off the boat. |
The anchor is now stored touching the hull in three places and seated in the top of the hawsepipe. |
Some time during the night I was awakened by hawsepipe, whose trick at the helm it was. |