Members' Online Book: Anchoring Made Easy, Chapter 21 of 33

Anchoring: Kellets

John Published Jan 26, 2020 32 comments Updated January 27, 2020

I keep thinking that we have finished our Anchoring Online Books, and then a member asks a question and I realize there's lots more to do. So let's knock off one of those tasks: kellets.

What They Are

For those of you who have not come across them, kellets (sometimes known as sentinels) are weights, purpose-made or kluged together out of whatever is at hand on the boat, that are attached to the rode somewhere between the anchor and the bow.

Let's look at why we might want to do this, and why we might not.

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John

John was born and brought up in Bermuda and started sailing as a child, racing locally and offshore before turning to cruising. He has sailed over 100,000 miles, most of it on his McCurdy & Rhodes 56, Morgan's Cloud, including eight ocean races to Bermuda, culminating in winning his class twice in the Newport Bermuda Race. He has skippered a series of voyages in the North Atlantic, the majority of which have been to the high latitudes. John has been helping others go voyaging by sharing his experience for twenty years, first in yachting magazines and, for the last 12 years, as co-editor/publisher of AAC.

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