Toro Anchor-cable Part # 106-8331

hello everyone my name is steve goodwin and you are watching my anchor test video number 106. now normally in my presentations i show you how anchors behave on the seafloor but today we're going to analyze how anchors deploy retrieve and are stowed on the bow roller as you can see i have mocked up a typical bow roller arrangement i've created a very long trough for the chain to lie in and the reason i've created such this long distance is more and more anchor windlasses are being mounted farther and farther toward the middle of sailboats and some power boats may also have this as well the reason people do mount their windows as far away is to relocate the bulk of the anchor chain toward the middle of the boat this is a advantageous for performance for the boats the problem with it is if you want your anchor to self-launch it must drag a certain amount of chain along the deck and that's