Anchoring - who is responsible?

[billskip]

more often than not with a little delta on the bow an some skimpy chain.

But but but that is what one poster has been drumming on about..."get a smaller anchor and lighter chain.

 

[Boathook]

But but but that is what one poster has been drumming on about..."get a smaller anchor and lighter chain.

No, it was lighter anchor and smaller chain !

 

[Bouba]

But but but that is what one poster has been drumming on about..."get a smaller anchor and lighter chain.

No, it was lighter anchor and smaller chain !

And it wasn’t a Delta

 

[GHA]

But but but that is what one poster has been drumming on about..."get a smaller anchor and lighter chain.

That's Internet chat rooms for you
Sailing round the anchorage in the gusts p!&&ing everyone off dragging a skinny chain desperate to find a little crack in a rock to get jammed in. Not a common viewpoint.
Perhaps one should be more charitable this time of year but sod it, it's the idea that's daft not the poster.
There goes the thread

 

[NormanS]

Some of you who get apoplectic about the way that others anchor, should try anchoring in more out-of-the-way places. In the majority of the places where I anchor, I am the only boat.

 

[GHA]

... should try anchoring in more out-of-the-way places. In the majority of the places where I anchor, I am the only boat.

Same here when there is one. Out in the big world it's rarely an option though unless it's a dreadful anchorage. All the nice places are busy.

 

[oldbloke]

My problem with charter boat anchoring , as per post#1, is not so much the quality of gear but the shortage of chain and the lack of length markers, so we all end up huddled in the shallow bits

 

[NormanS]

Same here when there is one. Out in the big world it's rarely an option though unless it's a dreadful anchorage. All the nice places are busy.

Plenty of space in colder climates.

 

[billskip]

My problem with charter boat anchoring , as per post#1, is not so much the quality of gear but the shortage of chain and the lack of length markers, so we all end up huddled in the shallow bits

I've seen a few of the expressions when the guy at the front watches the anchor chain and all dissappear into the deep....

 

[Blue Seas]

Just tell them that you are not anchored - you are snagged on the gas main, but confident that you can wrench it free. Then start the engine and give it a good dollop of revs and light up a ciggie.