Gregory's Server@planeth We try to avoid anchoring in such depths, but sometimes it is unavoidable.
The deepest we had to anchor this summer was 22m. I don't think I would anchor in deeper waters than this though...
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 @planeth oh no no it’s not all chain, our boat can’t take the weight, we have 30m chain, the rest is 3-strand nylon rope rode. Can’t remember how long it took us to haul the rode back up, maybe 20 minutes? How fast depends on the weather too, if it’s rough it slows us down a bit. That time we were anchored approx 100m from shore. Ooo, yea you draw a lot (we draw 1.92m). You had difficulty finding places to anchor for your draft? @rek 1,92m is already pretty deep! We've got a 40’ and we seem to pick sailing voyage without thinking too much about draft :D In Baltic Sea, especially Denmark, we had a few cold sweat mooring in micro harbor. Scilly islands too have a few no-go zone for us. But it's soo gorgeous! This summer we were on the north coast of Spain where the mountains dive right into the sea, so we didn't had to worry too much. Though the micro harbor thing is next level ;) @rek micro harbor is a very small harbor, indeed. Like 1 pontoon for 3 boats, sometimes only one. We know something about entering/exiting at high tide ^^. We did a foolish thing this summer, entering wayy too soon before hight tide in a river. With 2 knots current. It happened what had to happen: we got stuck on a rock and scrapped our keel :/ Apart from that, yes North Spain all the way to Galicia is worth it ! |
@rek ouch! How much time did it take to haul up everything ? I guess it's not all chain ? What's the mix for chain and line ?
How close/far to the shore where you ? Sorry, I've so many question :/ In our latest trips we had the inverse problem: not enough water for our 2.10m.