Patent ID: 8408152
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: B08B,B63B

Abstract:
1. A method for cleaning a deployed anchor rode of a vessel, said vessel having an anchoring system comprising an anchor attached to said anchor rode, and an anchoring system take up mechanism, said anchoring system take up mechanism suitably adapted to deploy said anchor by releasing at least a portion of said anchor rode and adapted to take up said anchor by drawing at least a portion of said anchor rode into said vessel, said method utilizing a clamp member suitably adapted to be attached to a bow of said vessel, a nozzle member, with said nozzle member having an interior portion and a first end and a second end, with the first and second ends of said nozzle being opened so that fluid may enter said nozzle member through the opened first end and exit said nozzle member through the opened second end, said nozzle member suitably adapted to be held by said clamp member in an appropriate orientation to direct the second end of said nozzle member towards said anchor rode when said anchor rode is deployed, and a quick-connect interface member located between the end of the water hose and the first end of the nozzle member, whereby said quick-connect interface member is suitably adapted to be removably attached directly to the end of the water hose and said quick-connect interface member is suitably adapted to be removably attached, either directly or indirectly, to the first end of the nozzle member, said method comprising the following steps: A. attach a first end of said clamp member to said bow of said vessel; B. attach said nozzle member to a second end of said clamp member, said second end of said clamp member being distal from said first end of said clamp member; C. orient said nozzle member such that its second end is directed towards said deployed anchor rode; D. connect the end of the water hose to the first end of said nozzle member by performing the following substeps: E. initiate water flow through said water hose; and F. take up said deployed anchor rode; wherein Steps A and B may be performed in any order with regard to each other; Steps B and D may be performed in any order with regard to each other; substeps D′ and D″ may be performed in any order with regard to each other; Step C occurs after Step B; and Steps E and F may be performed in any order with regard to each other; whereby after Steps C, D, and E are performed water flows through said water hose, into said nozzle member, and out the second end of said nozzle member such that water is directed onto said deployed anchor rode.