Leaving the boat on anchor for 2 weeks in Ibiza

Good luck with all of this - as indicated it is not a choice I would wish to make. Your original note indicated a degree of experience and confidence in the practicalities of laying a suitable temporary mooring. You said that your concerns were more to do with security issues and that is understandable. On reflection you might regret having made your intention quite so public here - there is quite a lot of info to help anyone with a malign interest. The idea of some sort of guardian overseeing things in your absence seems like the least you might plan.
 
Seb,

I have to say unless I could organise a trusted boat-sitter / guardian I would simply not do it, you say ' we ', I'm sure you've considered it but think again do you both / all really have to go ?
 
sebastiannr said:
Yes you need room to swing when the wind shifts daily.
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And that is my one concern with laying anchors fore and aft with swivel. You will move far less than boats around you, and will be moving differently - makes the chances of them coming down on you much bigger.

I'm happy to leave my boat at anchor for 24 hours or so (well happyish) in Croatian waters with a careful eye on the weather. Leaving it for longer than a weather forecast time would worry me. Even leaving it for a few hours I expect somebody to hit it when anchoring 3 inches away, so full fenders every time.

Hope you come up with a solution that works for you.
 
ytd said:
"there are many unattended boats in this bay"

that would ne my biggest worry - that someone would drag down onto you and then it doesn't matter how good your ground tackle is. Can you get a liveaboard there to keep and eye on it.
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Yes I made friends with a live-aboard when I was there 2 years ago and we have a good rapport, he will keep an eye out I'm sure.
 
RupertW said:
And that is my one concern with laying anchors fore and aft with swivel. You will move far less than boats around you, and will be moving differently - makes the chances of them coming down on you much bigger.
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Yes that's very true, for this situation I was going to use 2 anchors in tandem on one rode. We have an significantly over-sized Danforth style anchor that I will attach to the end of the main anchor chain with 5-10 meters of heavy warp. This 'should' be more than sufficient for all but the most severe (and fingers crossed, unlikely) weather.
 
vyv_cox said:
The person whose boat dragged down on Owen's in Portals Nous is a case in point. The owner was on board at the time, the boat finished up pretty much on top of Owen's, with both boats being held by Owen's anchor. So what did the owner do? Fetched his bolt croppers and cut Owen's chain! Fortunately his friend in the marina witnessed it all and saved Owen's boat from going ashore.
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Seriously, what a knob..!!!!
Extremely bad seamanship, cutting someone else's chain when that particular person has dragged and not the poor soul who's getting his chain cut....... Oooooo makes my blood boil.!!!

I hope that particular 'person' got his come up pence!
 
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vyv_cox said:
The person whose boat dragged down on Owen's in Portals Nous is a case in point. The owner was on board at the time, the boat finished up pretty much on top of Owen's, with both boats being held by Owen's anchor. So what did the owner do? Fetched his bolt croppers and cut Owen's chain! Fortunately his friend in the marina witnessed it all and saved Owen's boat from going ashore.
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Our biggest bolt croppers are about 3 ft long with a 2 inch girth, guess what I'd be snipping if anyone dared touch our chain?

Wouldn't leave our boat at anchor for a lengthy period unless had a guaranteed fellow liveaboard to check, I believe the Boss has pm'd you.
 
Sail up to Fornells and sit on a free mooring for two weeks my SD left his boat (42ft) on a mooring for 5 weeks and had a tram of 62 knots
 
sebastiannr said:
Hi all,

Leaving a boat on anchor has been covered in previous posts, but not for this length of time as far as I'm aware.

We have to fly back to the UK from Ibiza for 2 weeks, leaving the boat in Ibiza.

We were hoping to pick up a mooring in San Antoni via a live-a-board that I met a couple of years ago here. That didn't materialize so we are now faced with the prospect of leaving the boat on the anchor.

I'm not too worried about dragging - I'll use 2 anchors, bring the snubber/warp back to the winches, and secure all chafing points in rubber hose. I'm more worried about theft, but there are many unattended boats in this bay and we will take anything of value off the boat.

Still, I'm inevitably filled with a sense of dread for abandoning our beloved in a foreign harbor for 2 weeks.

What are peoples opinions about leaving the boat on anchor for that long?

Thanks,

Seb
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IMO you would be better off leaving the boat in say Smir, Morocco or in one of the mainland marinas in Spain. If you can get from Tunisia to Ibiza then you can get to Alicante or similar (there are lots of places on the spanish coast) just as easily. Smir is prety safe, you could get to Ceuta and then back to the Uk via Gib, lots of options but I would be uncomfortable leaving my boat in Ibiza unattended at anchor...
 
sebastiannr said:
Yes that's very true, for this situation I was going to use 2 anchors in tandem on one rode. We have an significantly over-sized Danforth style anchor that I will attach to the end of the main anchor chain with 5-10 meters of heavy warp. This 'should' be more than sufficient for all but the most severe (and fingers crossed, unlikely) weather.
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Make sure that the distance between the two anchors is greater than the depth so that you do not find yourself lifting two anchors at once.
 
My concern would be other folks dragging over my chain and lifting/disturbing the tackle.
You can plan for weather, but not idiots.
 
Update:

Back on the boat after leaving her for 18 days at anchor in San Antoni, Ibiza. A live-a-board friend was keeping an eye on her whilst we were away.

Result: We appear to have dragged no more than 2 meters, all ground tackle and warps still in the condition that we left them in. No break-in's or damage of any kind. We took all expensive nav equipment off the boat and put a note on the wash boards letting people know that no valuables were on board. I also left a towel hanging out to dry on the guard rail to make it look a bit more 'occupied'. The only problem was that somehow the Jabsco electric toilet flush turned itself on at some point (it bypasses the switch panel, but I still have no idea how it happened) so the motor is knackered and the batteries were pretty low.

So basically, you could say that we were lucky, and in some way's we were, but with careful preparation and someone to watch out for the boat, I believe that leaving her for so long wasn't such a crazy thing to do after all.
 
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sebastiannr said:
Hi all,

Leaving a boat on anchor has been covered in previous posts, but not for this length of time as far as I'm aware.

We have to fly back to the UK from Ibiza for 2 weeks, leaving the boat in Ibiza.

Seb
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We left a 40ft yacht on Anchor for 5 weeks in Fornells (owner didn't want to pay marina fees) it's fun to look online and see a tramontana go through with 40 no 50 no but 60knot gusts funnelling through into Fornells and wondering if the boat will still be there.

The anchor must have been a metre under the seabed as it was a nightmare getting it out on return.

We did appoint a local yacht owner to keep an eye on it.

As for the two anchors well if you have an equal amount of chain for each then sure why not.
 
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