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John m. Harrison
This is to update the board and also share with Richard Noddin on my windlass install. I have 135' of 8 plait rode, spliced to 50' of 5/16" galvanized chain, attached to a 35 lb. CQR. I'll try to post a pic of the setup. The windlass is mounted to a platform I made out of plywood, 1 x 2 oak strips, and fiberglass, resin, and Awlgrip. I also fashioned a forward locker hatch with a countersunk handle so I still have the original equipment full locker lid intact if I ever decide to do something different.... It seems to work fine so far, the rode-chain fall being fairly deep, i haven't yet had any issues and thanks to Lee Nicholas for his help and encouragement to keep going and 'gittr done'.... the Windlass in the setup I have, had to be mounted to Port, off centerline, otherwise, the rode and chain will be wrapping against the chromed 'toe' that projects forward which guides the rode & chain to drop in the anchor well... Hope this helps any other RC8-8 installers...