anchor lockers
 

Does anyone actually use the anchor lockers on their fastechs? I recently purchased a 312 and have noticed a few things about the anchor locker. First off, the bottom of mine is busted from what I can only assume is the fact that these aren't captive and the anchor beating around inside there. So after i repair the busted fiberglass, how does everyone use the locker successfully without having the anchor beating around in there? I was thinking about adding some loops to it for a bungie cord to keep everything held down.

Don't use it to store the anchor...just anchor line. Let me know how you fair with coming up with a securing method for the anchor.

I use mine. Have since I got it. Yes its got scratches. Yes its got dings. Yes its got dents. It's an anchor locker, what do you expect. I boated on the Delaware for 3 seasons, there was NO WAY I was bringing a muddy anchor and chain back into the cockpit of my boat. Formula built the boat with it, so I'm going to use it. In order for the anchor to fit it's got to go in a certain way, but after years of use I can do it with my eyes closed. I got 150ft of line in there too, I've found if you place some of the line on top of the anchor there is enough weight to hold it in place.

The one design flaw I see is when you have docking lights as an option. The housing and wiring is right there and not very protected when the anchor is bouncing around in there. This season I swapped my clear housings for stainless as one of my lights did take a beating from the anchor. To combat this after I installed the new lights, I cut a rubber mat I got from HD to fit along the sides of the anchor locker not only to protect the lights but the anchor locker too,.

I also think I'm going to get some rubber or something to put in there keep the anchor locker from getting destroyed. Hopefully my repair goes as planned, because right now there is a hole in the bottom and the drain line has come undone.

Yep, same here in my 300SS. From now on the anchor goes in the storage over the engine hatch and anchor rode, if anything, ends up in the locker.

The liner in the anchor locker is thin and the shaft of the anchor punched through in no time. Seems pretty lame to me how it is designed.

This is pretty much what I used

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Buffalo-T...-205461761-_-N

My buddy has an anchor locker on the front of his Yamaha jet boat. It has a pair of aluminum pieces bent into a J shape. The anchor rests in the J. Maybe I can get a picture.

I've tossed the idea around of installing some sort of clips to hold the anchor in place but I felt that any screw used since you couldn't go very deep into the fiberglass would eventually just pull out. You could use an epoxy to set them in place I guess but still unsure how that would hold up. Best I could come up with for now is just padding the locker the best I can.

Have you seen a Fountain anchor locker? The anchor rests on a pad and clips in at the top with a pin - it stays put. ...and not a complicated setup. I'd bet you could duplicate easily.

I think a good epoxy would do the ticket as long as the prep work was well done.