The accompanying picture shows an anchor chain roller/stacker assembly we installed in the anchor locker of our Vancouver 42, Jubilee, to distribute the chain throughout the chain locker without the chain castle blocking, and eventually jamming, the chain feed pipe. The device has four large rubber rollers (boat trailer rollers) mounted in an aluminum frame angled downward toward the aft end of the chain locker. The chain should run down the rollers, dropping off the end roller (roller 4) until the chain castle back there builds and causes the chain to loop and start falling between roller 3 & 4. The chain then keeps falling there 'til it castles and causes the chain to loop and start falling between roller 2 & 3, and then the same for roller 1 & 2. This is still a work in progress in that it works well for a continuous or near-continuous chain hoist, but if I have to stop and/or reverse the windlass a lot (say for spraying some tenacious mud off), there can be a tendency for loops to form and drop earlier and further up the roller series than they should. I'm thinking about adding optional power to the 4th roller. That would help me get a full castle of chain behind the 4th roller, plus get the next castle started (between roller 3 & 4), after which I suspect I'll be home free for almost all hoists, but that won't get worked 'til sometime between our Fall '06 haul out and Spring '07 launch. Bill Rohde, Vancouver 42 PH Cutter Jubilee