When It Starts To Go Wrong, It Does It In A Big Way

The neighboring boats might have taken lines for him to warp him in and prevent further damage to themselves. The wind and the chop looked a bit nasty it would give me pause for thought.

Panic: "a sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought and action." Cambridge Dictionary.
 
Lucy52 said:
The neighboring boats might have taken lines for him to warp him in and prevent further damage to themselves. The wind and the chop looked a bit nasty it would give me pause for thought.

Panic: "a sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought and action." Cambridge Dictionary.
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That's right.

I may be getting fixated on this video, However I think I have the only possible scenario:

1) He starts to reverse in, unaware of the effects of the wind on the bow.
2) He omits to tell the foredeck hand to release the anchor - or the foredeck forgets
3) The boat starts to spin downwind.
4) The helm loses control, maybe decides to reverse out.

At which point we pick up the video, with him 90deg to the pontoon, where panic drink or drugs do their worst.

Sorted. : -]

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RupertW said:
Agree with all of that except “drop to windward” - that way guarantees anchor chain snarl ups - you do need to drop dead in line but then have enough just enough speed and enough distance to keep going straight in.
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My experience in the med is that the anchor tangle is unavoidable.

Besides, the anchor position of the other two boats would have also been to their windward side as their own rodes would have been equally wind-bound.

In view of of the demolition derby performed by Kon Tiki, I would have happily put up with a bit of gefaffel sorting my anchor the next morning.
 
There is a key part of the video missing and which I think I saw elsewhere. In this the boat arrives in the slot more or less ok, but has not dropped the anchor. The crew fails to pass lines to the upwind neighbours and the boat drifts down onto the cat moored to starboard. From then on in it is all downhill ...
 
Laminar Flow said:
My experience in the med is that the anchor tangle is unavoidable.

Besides, the anchor position of the other two boats would have also been to their windward side as their own rodes would have been equally wind-bound.

In view of of the demolition derby performed by Kon Tiki, I would have happily put up with a bit of gefaffel sorting my anchor the next morning.
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No reason to assume the other boats will have theirs on the windward side more than a tiny fraction if they are tensed up fore and aft. Of course you can’t always avoid tangles but you don’t put your anchor in a position that guarantees a tangle.
 
RupertW said:
No reason to assume the other boats will have theirs on the windward side more than a tiny fraction if they are tensed up fore and aft. Of course you can’t always avoid tangles but you don’t put your anchor in a position that guarantees a tangle.
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Ah, I see! Not sure about the etiquette, but perhaps I can pass your wisdom on to the owners of the six anchors I brought up after a two day stay in Bonifacio.
Reality and theory are not necessarily congruent, as the skipper in that video found out.
 
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