Sailing lession: How to successfully anchor your boat?
As I was observing other boat owners while they were trying to successfully anchor their boat I couldn’t help my self I had to go trough the basics again in this article about boat anchoring.
It is amazing what some skippers of rented boats do. Belive it or not, I have with my own eyes that a skipper anchored his boat in a way that he drove with a tend
er on shore and jammed the anchor between the rocks on the beach. The wind was blowing from the land so fortunatley nothing happened to them. Some are lucky.
A bit more common cases are that people anchor near the shore, where wind are often changing their course. In that case when the wind changes course the boat will start stranding with the keel. But most of these people don’t even care about it. When the keel starts hitting the ocean floor they simply reanchor their boat in another position using tenders and main engine. These are just two stories that I remembered.
Other common mistakes are dropping anchor while driving forward, which can damage your boat’s bow, leaving to little anchor rope or chain, anchoring in great depths and anchoring on inappropriate type of sea floor.
Below are some suggestions on how to properly anchor your boat.
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