Anchoring in a marina

[jimi]

Anybody else read the latest daft suggested manouvre in Sailing Today amd thought it was another ridiculous suggestion?

 

[snowleopard]

There was a column on handling under sail in YM a few years ago which also recommended using the anchor in a marina.

All very well when the marina is set up using piles but if it's the type that moors the pontoons with chain it's another matter!

 

[copterdoctor]

So where does the marina start and stop? Do they own the water or just the pontoon? How far off a marina do you need to be to not get charged?

 

[Guest]

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How far off a marina do you need to be to not get charged?

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If it's marinas on the South Coast of England you're talking about then the nearest free spot would be about the North Coast of France.

 

[webcraft]

Apparently you can anchor in Craobh Haven. It was part of the deal when they built the marina in what had been a favourite anchorage.

I've never seen anyone doing it, but there's certainly plenty of room S. of the pontoons. Shall we have a muster there in the Spring?

- Nick

 

[tcm]

nope didn't read it. With strong side wind i mite dump the anchor a bit to hold an errant bow. Is it that? You'd better explain.

 

[jimi]

Down tide berthing. Drop the anchor and fall back from it.

 

[charon]

I've seen the anchor used to berth something bigger. (Three-masted Barque, 55metres, 500tonnes). She came in to a dead-end basin, dropped the hook in the middle of it and swung round it in to the berth. Nearest thing to a handbrake turn with a ship that I have seen.To get out, warp the bow out on the anchor and motor ahead. A competent Master, he made it look so easy /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[graham]

Also a good way of recovering all the lost marina trolleys /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Greenwichman]

I once used an anchor to hold the bow against an onshore breeze when berthing Invincible (aircraft carrier 24,000 tons) in Barbados. Had to resort to extreme seamanship because the tug would not play. Not really a marina, but same principle and worked - just like it says in ST, which was a good article for those who already know what they are about.

 

[bilbobaggins]

You'll still see the Caledonian-Macbraynes ships using a bow anchor to help control their downwind berthing, when it's blowing a hooligan from the NW into Oban Bay and onto the ferry pier.

Pro seamanship...

 

[Rob_Webb]

Some 'marinas' in the S Pacific often have cyclone moorings which are a huge buoy in the centre of basin and all the yachts tie their bowlines to it with their sterns aghainst the wall or piles. Formation looks like spokes of a wheel. Not anchoring strictly speaking but same principle.

 

[BrendanS]

what sort of tackle do they have underwater to make that work? Must be a fairly major piece of engineering to hold that many boats in a wind of that strength?