Anchor locker - Cal 2-29

Greetings everyone! As I'm continuing to explore my soon to be '73 Cal 2-29 (hull 575), I have been looking for the anchor/rope locker. In my trips to the marinas, I have seen storage compartments for an anchor and ropes. Is there such a compartment on the Cal 2-29 or is this a future upgrade to my boat? Thank you in advance for all responses and advice! Happy sailing :) Jim Ives Rochester, NY

On my cal 29, the anchor rode goes down a hole into a small compartment ahead of the v-berth.... Barrie

Yes, there is an anchor/rode locker in the bow of the 2-29. Rick Lobb Cal 2-29 "Rebecca Shea" Bellingham, WA From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:50 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] Anchor locker - Cal 2-29 Greetings everyone! As I'm continuing to explore my soon to be '73 Cal 2-29 (hull 575), I have been looking for the anchor/rope locker. In my trips to the marinas, I have seen storage compartments for an anchor and ropes. Is there such a compartment on the Cal 2-29 or is this a future upgrade to my boat? Thank you in advance for all responses and advice! Happy sailing :) Jim Ives Rochester, NY

Welcome to the list and your purchase of the CAL 2-29. There has been some new 29 owners added lately.   I think this is a good question, you will hear from various people with different answers amd opinions.  The anchor locker is in the bow. It is normally accessed by adding a house (sp) pipe through the deck.  I race my boat a lot and cruise less these days and never installed a house pipe. So my anchors chain and lines are in canvas duffles in the center of the boat ready for deployment. I can take out riinse evrything off and dry after a weekend at the islands. I also like the peace of mind knowing it is not a big corroded mess up there waiting for problems. However if I did make a real chain locker forward I would do some things different, like resin everything wood and find a way for salt water to drain over board than down the steel beam. Randy Cal 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca -- Sent from my Palm Pixi On Sep 8, 2010 12:50, James <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote:   Greetings everyone! As I'm continuing to explore my soon to be '73 Cal 2-29 (hull 575), I have been looking for the anchor/rope locker. In my trips to the marinas, I have seen storage compartments for an anchor and ropes. Is there such a compartment on the Cal 2-29 or is this a future upgrade to my boat? Thank you in advance for all responses and advice! Happy sailing :) Jim Ives Rochester, NY

Randy, I have the forward anchor locker also, and I don't use it. I keep my anchor in the port lazerette, and deploy it from there, where I can get to it when I need to, from the cockpit. Regards, Dave Dobbs, Cal29 411 --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Randall Alcorn <sa… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Randall Alcorn <sa… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Anchor locker - Cal 2-29 To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 12:40 PM Welcome to the list and your purchase of the CAL 2-29. There has been some new 29 owners added lately. I think this is a good question, you will hear from various people with different answers amd opinions. The anchor locker is in the bow. It is normally accessed by adding a house (sp) pipe through the deck. I race my boat a lot and cruise less these days and never installed a house pipe. So my anchors chain and lines are in canvas duffles in the center of the boat ready for deployment. I can take out riinse evrything off and dry after a weekend at the islands. I also like the peace of mind knowing it is not a big corroded mess up there waiting for problems. However if I did make a real chain locker forward I would do some things different, like resin everything wood and find a way for salt water to drain over board than down the steel beam. Randy Cal 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca -- Sent from my Palm Pixi On Sep 8, 2010 12:50, James <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: Greetings everyone! As I'm continuing to explore my soon to be '73 Cal 2-29 (hull 575), I have been looking for the anchor/rope locker. In my trips to the marinas, I have seen storage compartments for an anchor and ropes. Is there such a compartment on the Cal 2-29 or is this a future upgrade to my boat? Thank you in advance for all responses and advice! Happy sailing :) Jim Ives Rochester, NY

To be specific. On the 29 there is no compartment as on Catalina's and other boats that you open from the deck. The 29 is setup with an anchor locker in front of the V birth that is typically accessed by means of a hole in the deck that is covered with a variety of contraptions from standard pipe deck fitting to cowling vents etc. As far as anchors go, I keep a 25 lb Danforth type on the pulpit, a 10lb lunch hook on the rear pulpit (pushpit) and a 30 lb CQR in the port locker. The chain I'm running is approx 15 feet and its a bit too short. So at some point will extend it to 25 feet when I replace the rode and that will be set to 250 feet. I don't race so the weight is not troublesome and the anchors are setup to be interchangeable on the same rode. The old rode I will keep to use it as backup or when I need to have two hooks out. This list is awesome. What I know about Cal's learned it from here. Its greatly appreciated as its such a good resource. People are nice too.......;) Best of luck and good hunting for that new boat. /ch On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, James <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings everyone! > > As I'm continuing to explore my soon to be '73 Cal 2-29 (hull 575), I have > been looking for the anchor/rope locker. In my trips to the marinas, I have > seen storage compartments for an anchor and ropes. >