Rodholders made of starboard. Cheap but effective with shock cord to keep everything in place.
Anchor tubes lined with marine carpet to cut down noise & movement. Reef pick to port & sand/mud anchor to starboard. The rails are covered with heavy plastic hose to both protect them & to cut out noise.
Anchor well holds 250 metres of 12mm rope plus 7 metres of 10mm shortlink chain with heaps of room to spare. You could just about live in that anchor well. All my SS shackle pins are locked down with thin 316 SS wire prior to a trip. That removes any chance of a pin working loose.
If we are fishing in really rough country on the pick the 8mm chain is shackled to the bottom of the anchor & tied off on the shaft with really BIG zip ties. If you are hooked up & the anchor ball will not work, we tie off the rope & pull from the opposite direction. The prongs will bend & the zip ties pop. I have never lost a reef pick rigged this way.
The reef pick chain fits into the anchor tube. The chain can also be fastened to the top of the shaft. The reef pick weighs about 18lb & the shaft is filled with lead. We normally drift down from a mark in about 80-100 metres but sometimes will anchor in the deeper water.
Tons of storage under the bunks. The frames have been covered with carpet to cut down noise as the cushions have a base made from starboard. The carpet lining the under bunk storage stops stuff sliding around & also reduces that "slap, slap," wave noise when you are crashed out. :shock:
