Anchoring

I was about to call The Neevy One a 'snowflake'..... but then he'll have long forgotten what one of them looks like. :cool:
 
Neeves said:
They girls did need to learn what a Navy shower was
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I took a couple of work colleagues and their wives out for a day sail earlier this year. We anchored in the Beaulieu and the Italian couple cooked a delicious lunch for us all - including possibly the best tiramisu I've ever tasted. Then my Brazilian colleague helped me get under way while his wife offered to do the washing up.

She popped her head up early on to say that "the sink was broken", which turned out to mean that the water wasn't draining away - I assumed she just wanted to change the water and suggested she make sure the plug hadn't slipped back into the plughole; apparently after this all was well. She came back on deck just as we passed the dolphin at the river mouth and turned for home.

After we got back and tied up, I went to wet a cloth to wipe something down, and got the spattery blasts of air and water that comes with an empty tank. I'd filled up that morning while waiting for the guests to arrive, and we hadn't done anything involving fresh water apart from cook lunch and clean up after it. Turned out the washing up had all been done under a running tap - the boat's entire tank (minus one pan for boiling pasta) all gone in one bout of washing up!

No harm done, but it was lucky it was only a day sail returning to a marina :)

Pete
 
Living part time on my boat on the Costa Blanca I have a permenant marina berth which is great for security and of course social activities .
I love getting out overnight and anchoring in local sheltered bays when I have company on board and have been playing around with single handed recovery strategy's as I do not have much in the way if electrics on board and certainly do not want to splodge for an electric windlass.
Currently testing out a couple of retrieval methods and looks like a trip line to the cockpit could work ok after retrieval of most of the chain via the manual windlass. Tidy up in deeper water.
Looking forward to more quiet overnights in September October.
One advantage of a more basic boat is anyone emptying the water tanks would have very sore calf muscles ��
 
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Its best that those who are shy of anchoring are left to the visitor bouys or marinas, because at anchor they can be a liability, anchoring to close, not setting their anchor properly can become a real problem for others when the tide changes, around 4.00AM.
 
I'm a newbe single-hander, and I've given up anchoring in anything but a flat calm with plenty of space around because of the problem retrieving the anchor. I've a an electric windlass but with 30m rope and 30m chain, the chain piles up in the locker unless I constantly push it away from the gypsy. This is fine until the anchor is free. Then my problem is how do I get the last say 6 or 8 meters home and the anchor stowed while the boat is scooting off down-tide or down-wind. I've as nasty chip in the gelcoat from having to manoeuvre with the anchor not quite home.
 
Scillypete said:
Sheeeesh! ! !

In such a glorious and settled summer it is amazing to hear so much bollards spouted on the vhf and the witterings of some that turn up on their massive 40 and whinge to their chums that all the huge boat moorings are taken and too close together for rafting and no I don't like using the anchor at the best of times . . . . Really! ! If you don't practice at all how will they cope if disabled off a lee shore.

Present conditions are settled enough to use a brick on a bog chain and still some are convinced they are dragging. . . . Marina life has changed the way people cruise I feel they have lost the sense of adventure and freedom to some degree.

Just had to get that off my chest before I head to a quiet anchorage with no facilities and rocks all around
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Absolutely its because imo most have not learned from smallish boat upwards and have no real seamanship in them.tThe big problem will be if the satellites pack in dead reconing and no the lights turned out. This year we had 4 days in marinas in 16. But

The last holiday we spent 0 on marinas in 4 weeks .GB has forgotten that it was a maritime nation .
 
iLens said:
I'm a newbe single-hander, and I've given up anchoring in anything but a flat calm with plenty of space around because of the problem retrieving the anchor. I've a an electric windlass but with 30m rope and 30m chain, the chain piles up in the locker unless I constantly push it away from the gypsy. This is fine until the anchor is free. Then my problem is how do I get the last say 6 or 8 meters home and the anchor stowed while the boat is scooting off down-tide or down-wind. I've as nasty chip in the gelcoat from having to manoeuvre with the anchor not quite home.
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An interesting conundrum.

Assuming that the chain piling can't be solved, could you not leave the anchor as soon as the boat starts to run free and go to the engine and head for deeper water to give you more time to retrieve the anchor?

Richard
 
oldmanofthehills said:
My beloved Navigator likes a shower at least every 2 days but likes Marinas no more than I. However if anchor and we row ashore say in the Scilly isles there is generally a campsite, boatyard or hostelry with such facilities. As an engineer I of course make do with a squirt of WD40 under the arms
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camp showers are very good so long as you dont fritter the water.

Sans Bateau said:
Its best that those who are shy of anchoring are left to the visitor bouys or marinas, because at anchor they can be a liability, anchoring to close, not setting their anchor properly can become a real problem for others when the tide changes, around 4.00AM.
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specially the onees that need to feel secure by anchoring coming in 1 cable out in front on with 1 and a 1/2 times the depth on string.
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We stopped at starehole bay passage from gurnsey to falmouth only a few nights ago marvelous.
 

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We always had enough water on board for 4 days anchoring to be able to shower every evening after a swim to get most of the sun lotion off, shower gel on the sugar scoop then just rinse off with fresh water.
 
Just back after 2 fabulous weeks in Scilly, all but 2 nights at anchor, and one of those nights on a buoy in New Grimsby was a mistake, rocked and rolled all night but as soon as we put the hook down in St Helens pool early the next morning peace and quiet reigned, as it did in the Cove and Porth Cressa. Pleased that the mooring buoys there have gone, enabled us to anchor much closer in.

All in all our best ever Scilly trip.
 
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