[C320-list] anchoring

[Bruce Stanley]

Hi Adam
I use only chain. No wrapping.
But then again, I admit to using the iron spinnaker more than you!

Bruce Stanley
Sydney

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Chef Adam Weiner
<esquirecatering at rcn.com>wrote:

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> I normally don't anchor out, I usually just return home, go to another
> yacht
> club, pick up a buoy, etc.
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> The last time (before yesterday) that I anchored out was several years ago.
> At that time the anchor rode (which is a non-floating line) wrapped around
> the keel.  We went to leave at slack water so we just let out a bunch more
> rode and the line dropped off the keel.
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> Yesterday we anchored in 6 feet of water at low tide over mud.  Claw style
> anchor.  At high tide water would be 10 feet deep and with the distance
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> bow to water of about 3 feet I let out 30 feet of chain and about 70 feet
> of
> rode.  There are strong currents in this anchorage.  You guessed it.  This
> morning the rode was wrapped around the keel I knew this was the case when
> I
> stuck my nose of deck since we were facing a different direction then every
> other boat in the anchorage.
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> I have never heard of this before, and have only met only one other person
> who said that one time in a group trip one boat had the same problem,
> ironically (and he didn't think there was any connection) it was a
> Catalina.
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> Any thoughts?  I would anchor out more if this wasn't such a potential
> problem.
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> Adam
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