oops, sack the skipper

[Bru]

That'll teach me not to be a smart arse about how easy anchoring is

Misjudged the depths and failed to take into account how we'd swing once the ebb set in and put us down on the mud. Hard to sleep when your berth is at an angle of nearly thirty degrees!

Tide has just about turned do we've another hour and a half of discomfort before things get back to being upright.

Next concern is that we'll probably swing round to the incoming tide a bit sharpish when we unstick. Dragging the anchor and going back on the putty would add insult to injury

 

[Otter]

We saw a yacht at Stone Point where the same thing seemed to have happened, thank goodness for forgiving East Coast mud!

 

[Capt Popeye]

Now that you know the river bed quite well from close observation when the tide receded, was it poss to lay a kedge (or other anchor) in a a way that your craft would lie at bottom of channel (WHY?) when the tide turned??

I found, when sailing the East Coast many moons ago, that re anchoring, poss by Kedge, when all dried out, so that allowances for current and wind could more accurately be made.

And the hope that the wind did not change in the night??

 

[Bru]

The solution to our problem was simple - don't anchor on top of the only solid bit of mud for miles around!