> > I don't believe in tandem anchoring. Too much adverse data.
I am not sure what is meant by tandem anchoring. The way I have delt with many hurricanes, including when Ivan passed directly over, is that I put out three big anchors, two Bruces and one Danforth, each on its own rode. I splay them out in the direction of strongest winds expected. The result is that *when* a boat drags down on me I can toss one of the three rodes and swing away from danger. The last time this happened the dragging boat fouled my tossed-off rode though, and began to swing into me anyway. I had to tie him to my stern cleats to release pressure from his rodes, pay out his rodes, dive down and un-foul his anchors from my rode, then dive and untangle his anchors, and throw him off my stern, so he could gain momentum and his anchors caught and held fine then. It was a lot of work but worth it. Another time I had to toss one when a large section of pine tree landed on it. In all cases I retrieve the anchors and rodes later. (Of course). I never use the motor. With my small boat, it just is not needed. -Ken _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
