Congrats Kirk on your purchase. You'll really enjoy the boat!!
I made my harness for the stern by taking a 2" brass ring, 3 pieces of heavy double braid nylon rope, and 4 small football shaped net floats. I tied a bowline loop to each eye of the boat. I then brought the line out so it was equal length and down the midline of the boat to the ring. I slid a small football shaped float on each arm and put in a double overhand stopper knot so that they won't slide under the boat when deployed. You will have to readjust the length of each arm so they are even and meet the ring at the midline. Tie bowline loops to the ring. I then attach a third line for the Y. I slid two small football floats onto this arm and then a LARGE figure of 8 loop. You want it at the right length, so when the boat is in the tender or traveling down the highway, you can catch the figure of 8 loop on the stern cleat. You also want the figure of 8 loops large enough so you can handle this stuff with vinyl gloves on for the bitter cold days. For the bow, I just ran a piece of line with two floats in position with a stopper knot and a LARGE figure of 8 loop. I also wrap this on the cleat on the front deck. For my stern anchor, I have a 30lb grappling anchor and run 100 ft of line. At the end of the line, I secured in position two small floats and then a 8" aluminum carabiner that I use to clip to the figure of 8 loop on the yoke. For the bow anchor, the line is only 20 ft and I use a very large window weight, and also have two floats on the anchor line as well as the carabiner. I like this system because the harnesses always float. If it is snotty out and the wind is making things tough getting the layout in, we just unclip the anchor lines and toss them which frees up the layout boat. Yank the boat in and then go back and safely pull up each anchor (since each has its own floats). I've been very successful with this set up.
Best,
Steve
