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. |
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With this design, water passing up the hawsepipe went to the main deck, rather than below deck. |
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When the cleat tried to go through the hawsepipe, it jammed and ripped a section of the hull completely off the boat. |
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The anchor is now stored touching the hull in three places and seated in the top of the hawsepipe. |
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A glaring omission, though, is the lack of a hawsepipe or hawsehole. |
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I started working on the Eagle Mar, and I slowly worked my way up, what they call 'through the hawsepipe. |
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