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.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

The nappy 'trick' was mentioned in a book that I read as a way to keep other boats away and the boat didn't have baby's. They found though that it attracted boats with baby's, etc !

We’d rather have a considerate boat with babies on board than some utter numpty swinging into us in the night.

 

[westernman]

How many of you have been hit by some one swinging into you in the night?

I have been in many times in anchorages in the med which have been packed extremely tightly. Also at night the wind is often very changeable.
The dance and how the different boats drift around each other is absolutely fascinating to watch - much more so than a classical ballet such as Swan Lake.

 

[Bouba]

How many of you have been hit by some one swinging into you in the night?

I have been in many times in anchorages in the med which have been packed extremely tightly. Also at night the wind is often very changeable.
The dance and how the different boats drift around each other is absolutely fascinating to watch - much more so than a classical ballet such as Swan Lake.

Absolutely.....all boats weathercock....just not at the same time. And let’s not forget those who also set a stern anchor so they keep their stern to the beach

 

[Deleted member 478]

Whom to avoid anchoring near to? That brings up the ensign theory:

• Not near a French ensign. Enough said.
• At least several hundred yards from an Irish ensign - they'll invite themselves aboard and then eat and drink all of your provisions and never reciprocate and then bang on and on about how shyte you and your boat are.
• Red duster - the first thing they'll ask is wadda you want.
• Seth Efricans - too much smoke from their daily braai (bbq)
• Septics - too loud
• .....

 

[westernman]

Whom to avoid anchoring near to? That brings up the ensign theory:

• Not near a French ensign. Enough said.
• At least several hundred yards from an Irish ensign - they'll invite themselves aboard and then eat and drink all of your provisions and never reciprocate and then bang on and on about how shyte you and your boat are.
• Red duster - the first thing they'll ask is wadda you want.
• Seth Efricans - too much smoke from their daily braai (bbq)
• Septics - too loud
• .....

Do you have any friends?

 

[Deleted member 478]

Do you have any friends?

No.

 

[Bouba]

Do you have any friends?

People don’t even like him online.....

 

[Wansworth]

His cat likes him……unless he cannot get ashore

 

[Bouba]

His cat likes him……

I don’t see how.....cats are very judgmental

 

[Chiara’s slave]

How many of you have been hit by some one swinging into you in the night?

I have been in many times in anchorages in the med which have been packed extremely tightly. Also at night the wind is often very changeable.
The dance and how the different boats drift around each other is absolutely fascinating to watch - much more so than a classical ballet such as Swan Lake.

We had a pyjama party in Newtown creek a couple of years ago. It was that DF 40 We didn’t actually make contact, but we both sat on the facing amas, close enough to offer drinks. There was an odd eddy in the tide, we were on opposite sides of the circle.