Chris Earls is a genius

Chris Earls is a genius--at least in stainless steel. As I mentioned in my post titled "Heavy Construction" the starboard bow roller is very eccentric. It has to be because of the excessively wide flukes of the Bruce style anchor. As installed there was no way that it would lead fair to the windlass' gypsy. It would be useless except for brutal hand over hand work. Phillip had the idea of a vertical roller to redirect the lead. I bought a cheap roller at Blue Water and called Chris. He came out promptly and surveyed the problem. After saying things like 'no way' and 'have to live with it' he began muttering to himself. Within 20 minutes he had a clever, elegant, and practical solution. He took the roller to the shop and within 24 hours returned an beautiful and very study welded stainless bracket that fit perfectly. It leads the chain fairly to the chain stopper and gypsy and should work great.

Then for good measure he took the cockpit table bracket that was purchased by Jan from E-bay and altered it to fit our binnacle. The table is very dear to Jan who purchased a "deal" off E-bay and then lovingly vanished it only to find that it did not fit. We will now have wonderful sit down dinners in the cockpit thanks to Chris.