Name and shame

[Stingo]

I wish there was a place to name and shame the utter tossers that drop anchor directly in front of you and when I shout across informing them that they're right on top of my anchor, they shout back "It'll be just fine".

To the British boat called Grace Richard, you utter f***wit.

 

[Daydream believer]

Yes, but was it fine in the end?

 

[Stingo]

Yes, but was it fine in the end?

Says the man that never anchors.

 

[Stingo]

But Culatra has excellent holding, I hear you mutter. This photo was taken yesterday

 

[noelex]

A special mention is needed when the anchorage is uncrowded. Those with tiny anchors and overly long scopes deserve bonus points .

However, after many years at anchor, just moving is invariably the best option.

 

[Boathook]

Stingo can't move. His anchor is buried under useful items he has thrown of Ucky !

 

[Daydream believer]

Says the man that never anchors.

Oyi, I only asked

Would be nice to hear the full story. ie. Did you say "Hello" & get a boot in the ear for being "provocative"?
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(Some will know what I mean)

 

[Neeves]

A special mention is needed when the anchorage is uncrowded. Those with tiny anchors and overly long scopes deserve bonus points .

However, after many years at anchor, just moving is invariably the best option.

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From the decorations they all look like yachts involved in a race and I would expect them to have minimalist anchor (but still within the rules). Yacht no 1 immediately aft of the yacht from which the picture was taken seem to have their anchor directly under the yacht, which would be difficult - implying that when they dropped their anchor the photographer's yacht was someplace else.

I do agree if you find someone, anyone, to close - move. If they ARE too close they obviously have something to learn and teaching them can conclude in the wrong result.

This is the advantage of sailing in Tasmania (and I imagine the Western Isles of Scotland) - both are difficult to access - and you simply would not go there unless you are confident. If the location is blessed with perfect weather and blue seas - you can expect people who are still low down in the learning curve.

Jonathan

 

[Neeves]

On the concept of name and shame - we all need(ed?) to learn and a lot is learnt by the mistakes made. Hopefully the mistakes are one off and the lesson learnt. I'm all for encouraging people.

If you find a habitual idiot - naming and shaming might be appropriate - but this would be unusual - as they go and find a different pastime to which they are better suited - mistakes on anchoring can have serious consequences and an inability to anchor would be debilitating (and cause for divorce).

Forget blue, warm seas and the lands of the lotus eaters - stick to North West Scotland and your troubles with neighbours will melt away.

Jonathan

 

[Clancy Moped]

I gave up getting rattled by this, I used to get my phone out and snap away, the owners would ask why I was doing this, I'd say it was for my insurance, they then tended to move.

 

[noelex]

implying that when they dropped their anchor the photographer's yacht was someplace else

Jonathan

No, we were not "someplace else" when the offending boat dropped.

The yacht you can see in the photo in post #5 dropped their anchor very close to ours with a little more scope, but set their anchor almost at right angles to the wind, no doubt to try and increase the separation from our boat.

This is common tactic for people with limited anchoring experience. They mistakenly feel if they can "park" their boat in a spot it will stay there. Of course they quickly swung to the wind direction and settled just behind our boat.

These types of issues are not unusual. Some otherwise skilled and experienced sailors only rarely anchor. Rather than becoming upset, it is usually better to move.

 

[noelex]

This a photo from the same anchorage sometime later. You can see the middle boat is dragging by its orientation at right angles to the wind. It scraped along the side of the Sun Odyssey and is about to hit the grey yacht.

The splash is a crew member falling in the water.

 

[Yngmar]

We called it anchor TV. It's great fun to watch, much less so if you're involved. Occasionally helped sort it out when people were able to accept help (freediving very useful when things are entangled), although one panicked charter captain nearly mowed me down while furiously motoring around with his anchor hooked on another boats chain. I dived away and he just ripped his bow fitting off and bent that of the other boat. His wife at the bow nearly fell off too. Two kids wailing on deck. What a great fun holiday some people pay a lot of money for.

Don't cruise in Italy during their 3 month long summer holidays if Culatra already stresses you out

 

[ridgy]

To be fair unless the wind has a reasonable strength then boats can sometimes swing in odd ways. I was musing this from ashore over a few pints while anchored in a busy bay off lefkas the other day.

Later arrivees could not have guessed where some of the anchors were although all politely reanchored when problems eventually became apparent.

But anyway, who tf gives their boat a surname.

 

[Stingo]

Overdue Update: they did up anchor and moved about 30 yards to windward, so are no longer above my anchor.

 

[GHA]

We called it anchor TV.

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Don't cruise in Italy during their 3 month long summer holidays if Culatra already stresses you out

In Culatra the season in almost upon us!, locally called "drag racing", has always been a popular spectator sport there July/August when the charterers & "a few weeks in the summer" boats turn up. Every afternoon wind veers round to the west & picks up. Clever cruisers are already anchored to the west & watch the fun from happy hour