Bow and stern anchor on a dinghy?

[Mirror Painter]

Please be clear, I've just a novice dinghy sailor, but dream about sailing larger boats. I came across this video:



I can't help thinking that wouldn't have happened if the 'dinghy' and large outboard had only been secured by a bow anchor. I further wonder if it might have been wiser to not anchor at all but beach the dinghy. Please advise in case my premium bond comes up and I then need to worry about this sort of thing.

 

[Searush]

I have left dinghies anchored on lakes & in drying harbours, but only ever with a bow anchor or tied to a stout ground chain. Mostly there have been few problems, but sailing dinghies can range about quite a lot & try to sail over their anchor so it needs to be more substantial than I would generally be happy cruising with. Avoid the traditional fisherman anchor as the upstanding fluke or crossbar will simply poke thro a thin ply hull like yours!

But generally it is far better to carry a small dinghy far enough up the beach to be clear of an incoming tide. For your Mirror, a cheap launching trolley is a godsend to get it clear of the water & prevent waves grinding her on the shingle.

 

[jfm]

There's no way 3 girls + 2 guys could beach a dinghy like that. While the 1500lb claim is ridiculous, it's around 400-450kg and that is still too heavy. It's a Nautica 13 foot, plus Yam 50 o/board, btw

I have a similar sized tender and often anchor as they did, with a second stern line back to the beach, but I prefer in that set up to tie the stern to a tree not an anchor

Very hard to diagnose just from that video. Looks to me like they should have anchored it slightly further away from the beach so it wasn't in the surf/crest of the breaking wave. See pic below of my tender, though in calmer water of course. Possibly the anchor slipped when the big wave came - it looked just about the right size anchor (8kg Bruce) but the rode was all rope, no chain; I use 4m of chain before the rope. I doubt the stern anchor was a contributor at all

But I'm merely speculating!

 

[LadyInBed]

Tablet won't play / connect to youtube video, please post link.

 

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Here's the link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmD0WxtJAc

It's hard to tell what happened, but I suspect the forward anchor dragged sufficiently to allow the boat to swing broadside to the surf, and then grabbed at just the wrong time.

I myself would have lain to an anchor from the bow only, with the outboard cocked up. The nett result would have looked exactly like jfm's picture.

With a smaller dink I'd have beached her and either tied the painter to something solid ashore or taken the anchor up the beach and dug it in.

Mike

 

[LadyInBed]

Here's the link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmD0WxtJAc

Mike

Thanksfor link, looks to me like they didn't set the anchor and there was no weight on the rode to help absorb any snatch load.
All probably understandable in the benign conditions.