Continuing from the last post. The next step was to add the stainless steel self-launching anchor roller.
The anchor-roller is sealed and screwed to the sprit and then the warp (rope part) is threaded through it and into hawser pipe and hence into the chain locker.
The problem came when I found that the size of the rope to chain splice and shackle are too large to go through the pipe.
It's not the end of the world though. I shall replace the pipe with a larger version and use the existing one aft as access for mooring lines. In other words, keeping the mooring line in a locker, similar to the chain locker, with the rope available for mooring via the hawser pipe. To be positive, this a safer way to store the rope than as a coil on deck.
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