If you home & everything you own is only kept safe with a bit of metal stuck in some mud people tend to pay a bit of attention. Do you really not bother really checking the holding is any good?Dunno really why people get their knickers in a knot so much anbout anchoring. Seems to have been a common theme on here for decades!
It's generally very easy. Few people drag under normal circumstances. Lots like to talk about impending doom though....
Don't care, bottom line is using half revs & thinking all is well is stupid.
Beach anchoring, you generally chuck one hook over on your way in, so to speak. Go in quite fast, letting it pay out astern on a winch. The moment you think you’re going to touch, you snub it hard to set it, and someone jumps off the bow and gets the other anchor passed to them. Unless anyone can tell me I’ve been doing it wrong of course.
It's Brill if you do have the right boat. Aeons ago I used to sail on my oppos Prout 31 out of Portsmouth Harbour. On trips across to Benbridge, we could enter and go on the sand off to port. Walk the anchor to shore. Walk to pub. Have a fab run ashore and still get up without much of a hangover and go sailing again. The young, eh??
I disagree.Dunno really why people get their knickers in a knot so much anbout anchoring. Seems to have been a common theme on here for decades!
It's generally very easy. Few people drag under normal circumstances. Lots like to talk about impending doom though....
We used to go there in our smaller tris years ago. Arrive Friday night with the kids asleep. In the morning, they could dig on the beach in their PJs, and we could watch them from the cockpit with our tea and toast.It's Brill if you do have the right boat. Aeons ago I used to sail on my oppos Prout 31 out of Portsmouth Harbour. On trips across to Benbridge, we could enter and go on the sand off to port. Walk the anchor to shore. Walk to pub. Have a fab run ashore and still get up without much of a hangover and go sailing again. The young, eh??
Thats the drawback of decent monos. And one reason we prefer multis. We like to anchor in a metre or so if it’s a lunch stop. Just wade ashore, swim, paddleboard, etc then dry and take the sun on the trampolines.
Agreed. I know of one very famous round the world yachtsman who subsequently failed his YM exam because he wasn’t very good at parking the boat and anchoring etc. (The latter might have a touch of litotes about it. It’s certainly an understatement. )
When you get those kinds of feelings in future, assume you’ve misread or misunderstood and try harder before posting. He suggested they were inexperienced sailors, I explained that they are not.
A bit of thread drift as your comment reminded me of the end of RKJ's book where he is approached by customs in Falmouth in 1969 and asked "where was your point of departure?"
But surely you anchor each night en route to get some sleep ?
It contributes to the panel of different experiences as much as those who "live on the hook" without ever moving from one single anchorage
You'd need a bit more scope than most of us carry in 4,000m depth
No, of course not. We don’t have a windlass. My wife says we don’t need one, she has me. But then, we have an aluminium Spade. Even with our new chain, it’s manageable.
A weighs anchor in Falmouth, crosses the Atlantic, and anchors in the West Indies 4 weeks later.
