Marking the anchor chain

After all the fun we had with our anchoring practice, in our post mortem discussions, we decided to follow through on a previous discussion and mark the anchor chain so we could tell approximately how many feet of it were in the water.  After considering simple and complex systems (guess who suggested each) we settled on very simple--we will paint one link every ten feet.  For the first thirty feet, the marks will be green, for the second thirty feet the marks will be yellow and for the next thirty feet, they will be red.