Marking anchor rope

[Sailfish]

Does anyone mark their anchor rope?

I normally let out 10 metres of rope for every 10 feet of water.  I mark my rope in binary using insulation tape every 10 metres with yellow=1 and black=0

Redone today, it lasts about 5 seasons.  Interested in other ideas

[thejollysinker]

Blimey, I’m confused to hell 🤣

My old man made me do computer studies at school in the early eighties and I was bloody hopeless at it….and binary 🤷‍♂️

looks pretty though 😜

if I did mark my rope I’d probably just count every mark as it went out tbh 👍

[Saintly Fish]

I don't mark anchor rode. I just let out enough to make a 45deg angle. Then it'll sit nicely. 
if I was to mark it, I'd probably do ever 20m or I'd loose count. 

[Odyssey]

On my old boat I used red black snd green paint every 10ft, different colour each time so was easy to tel how much rode was out. 
 

donr borher now, don’t tend to anchor much these days 

[Andy135]

I used black marker pen on white rope. One mark every 10m and just counted them down.

[GPSguru]

On 6/17/2023 at 4:18 PM, Sailfish said:

Does anyone mark their anchor rope?

I normally let out 10 metres of rope for every 10 feet of water.  I mark my rope in binary using insulation tape every 10 metres with yellow=1 and black=0

Redone today, it lasts about 5 seasons.  Interested in other ideas

Yes, my system is identical and the 10ft/10m rule is perfect for 3:1.

I have my 200m of rode marked with red heatshrink, each marked from 1 to 20 in black permanent marker.

 

 

Edited June 19, 2023 by GPSguru

[mike farrants]

I have 80m and let the whole lot out - im usually in no more than 70ft water, if i need more i have another 70m on the other end (150m total, tied off in the middle ish)

[daio web]

i just mark the last bit of chain about 2 mts from the end so i know when to slow down to stop it damaging the boat   about 150 mts of rope 15 mts of chain