that time we narrowly avoided sacrificing our deposit dragging anchor in strong overnight winds
Anchor More Safely with a Dinghy Scout Track
With any simple handheld chartplotter, often as simple as your smartphone with your favorite navigation app installed, you can use this technique to improve your safety margin in sparsely charted areas. I love tips like this that use gear I’ve already paid for in an unorthodox way, especially when it allows me to enhance safety […]
Quixotic Catamaran Anchoring
Anchoring confidently is always a challenge on a charter boat. You’re dealing with ground tackle that you haven’t selected, setup or tested. Add the complications of being new to catamarans and unfamiliar with chain rode and we had an unfailing recipe for drama. That said we anchored four of our eight nights in Antigua and, […]