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R E K

@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?

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planeth

@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 ;)

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@planeth How do you mean micro harbor? Is that the name of a place or just a very small harbor(hehe)?
North coast of Spain sounds lovely! We’ve been to a few places this summer with an entrance that we could only enter/exit at high tide, kind of funny to be landlocked for a while :P...

planeth

@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 !

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