{"id":24745,"date":"2016-02-11T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=24745"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:24:43","slug":"how-well-do-anchor-swivels-reduce-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2016\/02\/how-well-do-anchor-swivels-reduce-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"How Well Do Anchor Swivels Reduce Twist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<article id=\"post-2689\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"left\"><em>Practical Sailor<\/em> testers dig into anchoring accessories, including the new stainless-steel anchor swivel from Mantus. The theory behind using an anchor swivel is that the swivel releases any twists in the chain when an anchored boat swings through 360 degrees or more. Still, as addressed in previous blog posts, they question the logic of using one. Their skepticism is supported by experience, previous testing, and input from long-term cruisers.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.practical-sailor.com\/blog\/How-Well-Do-Swivels-Reduce-Twist-11938-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical Sailor testers dig into anchoring accessories, including the new stainless-steel anchor swivel from Mantus. The theory behind using an anchor swivel is that the swivel releases any twists in the chain when an anchored boat swings through 360 degrees or more. Still, as addressed in previous blog posts, they question the logic of using one. Their skepticism is supported by experience, previous testing, and input from long-term cruisers.\u00a0Read More &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[914,915,916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24761,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions\/24761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}