Anchoring Technique - newtown ck display

We were there at the weekend, arrived around 11am on the Saturday and from before the entrance my son could see a free buoy just before the bend in clamerkin lake, I never thought it would still be free when we got there but we just managed to beat someone else to it.

Did anyone see the newish targa 34 that was there, newish boat with no name. anyway on Sat he dropped the anchor and then they sat in the boat sunbathing totally oblivious to the fact that he was going to run out of water very soon. True to form when the tide went out he was beached and listing over, then they got the dingy out on the mud, probably the safest way to move around tho! till the water came back in

Later that day he moved over to the other side (beacon with north top mark) by the wall that exposes. On Sunday the 2 blokes cleared off to the the pub in the dinghy leaving wives still in there. When I looked over I could see the anchor was dragging and he was floating into the wall, I tried to make her aware that they were moving but by that time it was too late the boat was on the rocks..........

We left when the NT bloke turned up around 1pm so missed the antics afterwards. I'll get some pics up when I can get the pics off my sons phone
 
We anchored in Alum bay Sunday afternoon, quite a few boats in the corner as usual. All ok until the sea breeze increased and boats started swinging... first through 90degs then nearer 180, though not consistently. Made it all very interesting. Ours wasn't the only anchor that dragged after that. This though gave me the opportunity to go and anchor nearer the cliffs as I fancied a catching Bass for tea, but I failed miserably :( (catching a Bass that is, anchored perfectly) Watched a Cranchi come in and anchor so they were near enough bang over the east Long Rock, on a spring ebb.....
 
ChrisKaye said:
Here's a pic my son took, apologies its taken a while for me to get it on here
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Super pic, shame about the resolution. We were at Newtown Creek again on Saturday and the wind picked up again and about 4 or 5 boats were having problems. A raggie slipped into one of the bouys that had 3 mobos on it. No damage done though by the looks of it.

A little day boat in front of us slipped his anchor 3 times, but he was only putting out about 4/5 meters of chain.

And a decent sized flybridge slipped as well, again not enough chain out.
 
Yup, I was tucked in South of the entrance on Sat watching the Broom go steaming backwards until it was rescued by the owner in a spectacular "in-flight" docking manouvre involving his tender :eek:

We were swinging about a bit, but the Delta plus about 15m chain seemed to work fine.
 
FlowerPower said:
Yup, I was tucked in South of the entrance on Sat watching the Broom go steaming backwards until it was rescued by the owner in a spectacular "in-flight" docking manouvre involving his tender :eek:

We were swinging about a bit, but the Delta plus about 15m chain seemed to work fine.
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And where was your camera when all this was happening?? :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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