Your Sail boat and life hang on your anchoring system when you are sailing around the world, cruising full time on a liveaboard sailboat. Its important to consider and maintain your ground tackle! This includes the deck under your Windlass, servicing the Windlass, choosing the best anchor chain, and carefully choosing the best anchor swivel, shackles. and anchor. Last time. Patrick ripped out the fiberglass deck on our old blue water sailboat to find the balsa coring wet and rotten, and he replaced it with solid fiberglass. This week, he re installs the Lofrans Tigres Windlass, after changing the oil, replacing a gasket diy, and mounts the Windlass. Our new anchor chain is a high quality, calibrated hot dip galvanized anchor chain shipped from Maggi Chain USA called Aqua 4, a G40 Chain, (grade 40) which has been tested and certified to the highest standards. It is made in Italy under tight quality control, not in a Chinese factory prone to cost cutting and short-cutting. Our Manson Supreme Anchor, along with our Mantus anchor swivel will be shown in a future episode, but neither of those are cheap Chinese products either. Patrick shows how he marks the chain with paint every 50 feet so we know how much chain has been let out when we anchor the boat. We wanted NO cheap Chinese Anchor Chain on our offshore sailboat, sailing around the world, so we crossed an entire ocean for a year; the Indian Ocean, so that we could buy from http://maggichainusa.com aka http://www.ChainsandAnchors.com. And have it shipped to us in Richards Bay, South Africa. We could only find calibrated anchor chain made in China while in SE Asia, and even some American and Canadian Chain is now outsourced to China using “first world” standards and designs. But we have witnessed First world marine products made in overseas factories. Even with European managers, quality control is just not consistent. Anchor chain made in China will never go on SV Brick House. ourLofrans Tigres windlass was also made in Italy and has performed flawlessly with regular oil changes and maintenance, and this year a new gypsy to accommodate 3/8" anchor chain. Maggi Chain USA sent us calibrated windlass anchor chain, made in Italy. There is another brand their sister company offers called LaClede Chains made in the USA...and both are extremely high quality anchor windlass Chains made in first world countries, NOT Made in China! We would simply NOT have anchor chain made in China! If anything were to go wrong, we have a reputable company with a high level of service to work the problem with. Maggi Chain USA stands by their products, and bent over backwards making sure our anchor chain made it safely to us, all the way to South Africa. Later in this great sailboat diy video, Patrick shows how he secures the bitter end of the chain, Marks the lengths so we know how much has been put down on the ocean floor, and how he moves the weight of the chain far aft to cut down on weight in the bow. We also dump our old rusty CQR anchor with no replacement anywhere in sight! We like having two anchors on the bow, for emergencies, but until we find the right anchor, we will simply survive with our reliable Manson Supreme anchor. Mantus Marine also makes a lot of good products including our anchor swivel and Mantus chain hook, so maybe we will get a Mantus Anchor....or maybe another Manson Anchor product, or something else we will stumble upon in our Sail around the world. Time will only tell...but we will never buy Chinese if we can avoid it! ************************ Please start your Amazon shopping here if at all possible; as a an affiliate, we may make a small commission from any purchase at all that you make in the next 24 hours after following this link : https://amzn.to/2K9MmuA ✘ Recommended Ground Tackle ✘ https://amzn.to/32YqF5c (Anchor Swivel for 3/8 inch anchor chain) https://amzn.to/2nb4sS6 (60 pound anchor though NOT in Stainless Steel ) https://amzn.to/2In0T2y (An Anchor we STRONGLY Hate!) http://www.MaggiChainUSA.com http://www.ChainsAndAnchors.com ▬▬ FOLLOW ALONG! ▬▬ ✩Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/svBrickHouse ✩ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SYBrickhouse ✩ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SVBrickhouse ✩Our blog: :http://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com ✩Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/PatrickChildress ✩Tshirts and other: https://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com/store Wish we were on Patreon? We aren’t...but you can support us in 5 other ways: 🍯(Tip Jar) http://whereisbrickhouse.com/tip-jar/ ⛵️ TWO FREE SAILING COURSES: http://whereisbrickhouse.com/sailing-school ⏩Start your Amazon shopping here: https://amzn.to/2K9MmuA ⏩ Start your West Marine Shopping here: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-8942237-13739708?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westmarine.com%2Fbuy%2Fraymarine--axiom-pro-12-rvx-multifunction-display--18561654&cjsku=18561654 ✩Tshirts and other: https://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com/store #sailingAfrica #PatrickChildressSailing #TravelsAnimals