Anchoring - who is responsible?

[Wansworth]

Trying to disentangle the two anchours off YarmouthIOW the skipper decided to come up to the foredeck and offer his two pennysworth,unfortunately the ship was actually drifting with the tide down onto a Russian ship.With athletic,even Olympic running I made the bridge and put the engine in gear and wound on the revés…..cleared the Russian ship by feet with the Russian crew looking hopeful with a fender!

 

[Boathook]

His cat likes him……unless he cannot get ashore

Stingo's cat dislikes him. Showed this by turning on the fresh water and wasting it !

 

[Stingo]

Stingo's cat dislikes him. Showed this by turning on the fresh water and wasting it !

Have you and the Cooking Fat been working in cohorts?

 

[Stingo]

Next, you, the CF and dumedin will be working together to replace all the fuses on my wreck!

What's the world coming too? No wonder I drink so much!

 

[Boathook]

Have you and the Cooking Fat been working in cohorts?

Not yet !

 

[Seven Spades]

We have an on-going problem with light boats anchoring in front of us and not understaning how a heavy boat will swing.

They think that we will all swing together but we don't. The light boats tend to swing around their anchor, but we at 27 tons will stretch out our anchor chain and so our swinging circle will be used. So imaging we have 30m of chain out we could easily be 36m(assuming 18m from the anchor) in the other direction when the tide turns but a light boat with the same amout of chain might only move back 25m from their original position so we might end up 11m closer.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

We have an on-going problem with light boats anchoring in front of us and not understaning how a heavy boat will swing.

They think that we will all swing together but we don't. The light boats tend to swing around their anchor, but we at 27 tons will stretch out our anchor chain and so our swinging circle will be used. So imaging we have 30m of chain out we could easily be 36m(assuming 18m from the anchor) in the other direction when the tide turns but a light boat with the same amout of chain might only move back 25m from their original position so we might end up 11m closer.

Us 2 had better not share an anchorage then. Though I do have a clear understanding of what your boat will do, my own is a different story. There is no telling where she’ll head next, at anchor.

 

[boomerangben]

Radars on in anchorages……. If you are a regular visitor in big anchorages where there are potentially dozens of boats, is it healthy to a) be exposed to your own radar for extended periods of time (assuming radar is on a post on the stern) and b) exposed to dozens of other radars every night?

 

[benjenbav]

A couple of thoughts:

OP rues not using a float marker. Had they done so, some random would surely have assumed that it was a mooring buoy and tied up to it.

I do own a golf rangefinder - am also a keen user of radar - proved useful once when anchored at what turned out to be a 9-iron’s range away from a superyacht where the passengers were amusing themselves by hitting golf balls from the deck. I added one or two to my collection before re-evaluating a suitable distance and moving out of range.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

A couple of thoughts:

OP rues not using a float marker. Had they done so, some random would surely have assumed that it was a mooring buoy and tied up to it.

I do own a golf rangefinder - am also a keen user of radar - proved useful once when anchored at what turned out to be a 9-iron’s range away from a superyacht where the passengers were amusing themselves by hitting golf balls from the deck. I added one or two to my collection before re-evaluating a suitable distance and moving out of range.

My last encounter with a superyacht at anchor was in Bouldnor bay, where, dressed as we were in dry tops, hats and sunglasses, several young ladies on board were obviously unable to tell our age. Us being well out in front of the fleet, we were saluted with a boob flash I presume they thought we were half the age we actually are.