I made up the prototypes above. They didn't take long to make and I thought I could transform them into the real thing in a day or so. Wrong, it has taken a lot longer than that, about a week.
Here are the almost finished rollers on the boat a few hours ago as I was making the bracket that ties them together in front of the forestay. It gives them sideways stability and some additional support out front as it lays on the nose of the bow with protective rubber sleeves.
The two sides are not the same and are made specifically for the 25 lb. Manson Supreme which will be on the starboard side and for the 22 lb. claw that will sit on the port side. The double rollers on each are positioned for each respective anchor along with their lengths. I tried to make them so that the anchors look to be side by side.
The left two arrows point to posts that the anchor rode will go around at a slight angle to get to the side cleats on each side of the boat. There is also a center cleat. There will be two short lines with carabiner hooks off of it and those will snap onto the chain to hold the anchors back on the rollers. I curved the ends of the roller supports so that the line could wrap around them instead of the posts if desired.
The center arrow points to a quick release for an inner stay. I raised the forestay up the mast some that the new roller furler is on and left the old forestay where it was up on the mast and will secure the bottom out of the way, but will be able to hook it to the quick release if needed to run our old jib or genoa or a storm sail.
The bottom arrow points to a lever that I can position on the Johnson Lever on the new forestay and then tension the inner forestay down to the quick release and pin it there. It should take very little time to hook up the inner forestay if needed. I read about running two sails (like jibs) off the front of the boat while running and not using the main. I'd like to try that with our old jib on the inner forestay off one side and the genoa on the furler off the other.
The right arrow points to the bracket that sits on the very front of the bow that I made today and explained above.
I can't believe how easy it is to pull the anchor up with these rollers. Since we anchor almost every night this is going to be a big help now and in the future.
If anyone is interested the total weight of what is in the picture above is about 14 lbs.. I didn't weigh what the two ABS tubes weighed that I took off,
I'll post the build later and a picture with the anchors in place soon,
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Bit greedy.. but look at the ramming potential of that 
Endless fun.
, a 1997 to be exact, I'll take one! 
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