Overhauling our Anchor Rode on a Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer: Ep. 26

We have been spending time at a marina in Ensenada mexico and doing a lot of maintenance on the Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer. We spend 2 months in the boat yard recently where we did some major maintenance on our running gear, as well as a few smaller projects and fresh antifouling paint. We will publish a long video showing all of our work in the yard soon.

This video will hopefully be the first of a series of very short videos where we document a single maintenance task. In this one, we show how we overhauled our all chain anchor rode. When we bought the boat, the chain was completely rusted because the anchor locker drain had been clogged so the anchor was sitting immersed in salt water for a long period of time. It was also 10 years old so the galvanizing probably wore off with use. Replacing the galvanized chain would have cost approximately $3500 USD, so we looked into a way to refurbish the existing chain. We found a galvanizing shop in San Diego that said hey could re-plate the chain for about $700 so we took this option.

After getting the chain back from the shop, we painted depth markers on the chain and re-installed it on the boat and we show that process as well.
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