Raggies must have long anchor chains. . . . .

Stinkies have to moor the same way in the Med.

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Boy! That's some snail you have there!

I could sit and watch him for hours.

Is he doing the doggie paddle or the crawl?

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a; you don't let out 200 metres of chain, not remotely near that amount. (And you take up the slack.)

b; the anchor stays in situ when you're moored.

c; you drive over it whilst pressing the up button when you're leaving.

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<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.sailonline.com/seamanship/Med_mooring.html>Here</A> are the full instructions. Can also be done bow to. Some marinas have a "lazy line", you pick up a buoy, attach the line to your bow and just reverse in to the pontoon.


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That's what I thought, but the animated gif shows the yacht dropping anchor some 5 or 6 boat lengths from the pontoon, then reversing in with the anchor fast to the sea bottom. Upon reaching the pontoon the anchor is hauled in and reset just in front of the bow, say at a length of 1/5th of the boat length. The ropes are represented by red lines.

I wondered how one could release an anchor from the sea bottom some 5 or 6 boat lenghts ahead of your boat whilst stern-on moored to a pontoon?

Must just be a badly designed animation.

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