CAUTIONPay utmost attention: never get too close to moving parts to avoid danger and injury.
Lower the anchor by means of the electric controls or manually. To carry out this operation manually, unlock the rotation, let the wildcat turn freely on its shaft and the chain fall into the water. Remove anchor safety retainers.
To lower the anchor electrically, press the control button at your disposal. In this case the anchor lowering is perfectly controllable and the unrolling of the chain or of the line is regular. Once the yacht is anchored, lock the chain with the safety cable.
The anchor and the chain may cause damages to the yacht bow if the anchor winch is not operated carefully.
We suggest to carry out the operation by means of the remote control located near the anchor winch; this will allow checking the lifting and lowering speed of the chain and the entry and exit of the anchor shaft into the anchor roller.
Namely during those operations, an excessive gliding of the chain or a wrong entry or exit of the anchor shaft from the roller, may cause damages to the yacht’s bow.
CAUTIONPay utmost attention: never get too close to moving parts to avoid danger and injury.
CAUTIONThe chain is fastened to the vessel by means of a slip hook. If it is not possible to remove the anchor from the sea bed this system will make it possible to resume navigation.
CAUTIONThe anchoring area is a circle with the centre at the anchoring point and a radius equal to the chain length plus the yacht length.
The entire anchoring area must be free, in case of sudden variations of wind and/or current direction, especially in case of night anchoring. At night, before dropping the anchor, check that the white anchor light works.
Before anchoring, check the nautical charts: anchoring is prohibited in certain areas, in weed covered sea bottom, anchoring is unsafe and harmful to the environment, on rocky sea bottom, the anchor may get stuck or lost.
Anchor the yacht with the engines running, both for safety reasons and to compensate the electrical consumption of the winch.
Check the anchoring point frequently.
The distance from obstacles or other yachts must be, at 360°, greater than the length of chain dropped.
During anchor riding it is advisable to leave the winch powered.
Do not reverse the winch rotation suddenly.
WARNINGWhen the winch is operating, be extremely cautious of rotating parts; keep your feet, hands and the remote control cable at safe distance.