Anchoring tips
Anchor problems
Your flukes caught another anchor chain
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Usually you can lift the other anchor chain up with your anchor, so even in murky water the problem is then clear. Hoisting up the other chain (could also be from a larger vessel or a much heavier dedundant chain from sunken buoy) does put a lot of stress on the yacht. Moreover, it could break out the other anchor!
Make a line round the other chain, ease your anchor a few metres and turn the flukes away from the chain. Next get your anchor on deck and drop the other chain.
A very handy gadget is a hook you can release under pressure. Also means that you don't have to hoist the other chain to sealevel in clear water.
Your anchor jammed under rock or cable
- anchor chain tout
- send down the messenger line
- slack anchor chain
- pull tripline/messenger line in opposite direction to where the shank is facing
Glossary
- Anchor aweigh
- Anchor rode / Anchor chain
- Anchor watch
- Anchor winch / Windlass
- Bitter end
The very last piece of the anchor line that is available at windlass. Thus, is a ship is riding out a gale in a treacherous stretch of water with no more line left to pay out, the ship and crew are indeed in trouble when at the bitter end.
- Scope
- Setting, resetting
- Trip line
- Veering
Anchoring tips
Gieren tegengaan.
Hekanker, ankeren in span, voorkomt ook dat het anker onklaar wordt omdat je niet over je eigen anker kan drijven.
anker ingraven on beach or behind rock.
when moored near ferry quay use second anchor a weight to lower angle of chain, this pulls the yacht away from the quay.
valwinden
deining
Note that anchor etiquette gives priority to the first boats in the anchorage. If you arrived after another boat, and there's interference between the boats or their anchors, it's incumbent upon you to move or otherwise correct the situation.
Important guidelines
Especially with the Mediterranean (Croatia, Turkey and Greece) in mind, all experts agree on the following important guidelines:
- The ship should carry at least two different anchors to suit a wider variety of seabeds. No single anchor design is best in all conditions. By far the best combination is a Danforth with a CQR.
- A Bruce anchor is useless and unacceptable, but can be handy as a third anchor in very calm conditions because it is so easy to set and handy on a rocky seabed.
- The Danforth type anchor:
- should be of a good brand and size (Performance 37, Fortress FX 37), and not the usual cheap and dangerous lookalike!
- or should at least have a stock of good length, if the stock doesn't protrude well from the flukes (>10 cm at both sides) the anchor is useless and will simply skid along the seabed on its side.
- preferably has an adjustable fluke angle that can be changed from the normal angle of 32 degrees to a soft or muddy seabed angle of 45 degrees (like the Fortress FX)
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- There should be no main anchor. The stern anchor plus rode must be as safe and reliable as the bow anchor when used without a second anchor.
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