anchor lockers
#1
Registered
Thread Starter
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.
#2
Gold Member
Gold Member
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.
#3
Registered
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,.
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,.
#4
Registered
Thread Starter
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,.
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,.
#5
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Southern Michigan and Elk Rapids
Posts: 404
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
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.
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.
#6
Registered
#8
Registered
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.