Anchoring Where has the respect gone ?

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by john61ct

The point many are trying to make in their responses to you, is that maybe you have some valuable information to communicate, but

the bizarrely incomprehensible language you are using discourages trying to figure out its meaning, so

most members will just skip your posts instead.

Just on the off chance you aren't just trying to entertain with some kind of whimsical poetry or performing art.

If that is the case carry on.

Otherwise, maybe get back on your meds, or get help to get the mix adjusted?

Or, if you're intentionally trolling, please stop.

You guys know it's a computer program you're talking to right?

[john61ct]

If so, kewl, but then why's it allowed to keep posting?

[hzcruiser]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Its usually a second anchor they have set up.. lotsa boats carry a decent kedge anchor.

OK, that way it does make (more) sense.

[Boatsie]

Hi guys, robot here.
Do most of you guys look at probable plane angle of vessel you're about to drop pick near too?
I'm very fond of long keel and the reflexes needed to cruise her ride. At anchor they can generally shorten a lay and continually pull the shank because their volume will plough better into swell. Usually size is larger, they tend to behave better on anchor.
Nowadays there's often a fondness towards our modern monohull skiffs. Eg. A race crew with high reflexes to reduce lengths from fulcrums as swiftly as they due.
Yet on anchor they tend to skiff with line pull due to swell assistance of short bursts. Hence they move around.
I'd love to achieve a longkeeler on a heavy reach, lead sheet beyond comprehension of tight and following sheets ready to ease and brace because the reflexes preferred to keep her turn balanced are surely to be such of (Latin) EVER HIGHER.
If you guys understood that then feel welcome to drop pick next to mine any time. Otherwise, I'll drop pick near you instead. I'm same as any man out there, we both safe.
Awe.. Argh me hearty, hence I might be a cyborg.

[Boatsie]

Plus ultra

[rick bertram]

He has a valid complaint. A lot of people have never taken sailing / boating classes and learn by doing so they don’t even know they’re making a mistake . So many boaters don’t know how to anchor. I’d ask if they need some help or point out your boats swing radius. So many issues with anchoring and no real cut and paste answers.

[Capt Gary]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

We are anchored in a little out of the way Cove, now with just one other sailboat riding out a Norther in George Town.
Just the other day, we were descended on by five power boats, all at once.
One kept dropping it’s anchor, and it would drag, he did this over and over. The rest just dropped and didn’t even back down.
This is a nice Cove, but on the charts it says “poor holding” and these power boats, like many had the really pretty, but seriously undersized SS Delta anchors.
This picture is where one ended up, so close to a sailboat that was here that it’s dinghy was on their anchor rode, now there is plenty of room, there was no call for that. Two of the sailboats up anchored and left.
I thought, what a twit, just real pieces of work.
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Anyway, one came over later to talk, it didn’t take long to figure out that they weren’t so much arrogant obnoxious snobs as they just had no idea of what they were doing. They were traveling in a group, following one “expert” who I guess had been to the Bahamas before.

Out of curiosity, in the picture it looks like the sailboat is upwind of the trawler? Wind shift or currents?

[RSH]

Originally Posted by SV Siren

You have to work on your "Bitch Wings", hands on your hips with a scowl of disapproval on your face..Yes. its a thing.

OMG that's hilarious. I see that all the time on the tennis court-now I know what it's called.

Originally Posted by john61ct

Hanlon's razor

"Never attribute to malice*that which is adequately*explained by stupidity."*

He and Occam had the world pretty much figured out...

I attribute much of the anchoring issues to a world that is much more crowded than it was 30 years ago. We're adding about a billion people to the planet every decade, and nothing is secret with the internet, so all the nice places are sort of doomed by their own niceness.

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

You guys know it's a computer program you're talking to right?

If that’s the case, I’m thinking it’s time for the mods to boot it. There are several threads with several posts in a row populated by my ignored poster.

[john61ct]

of course the AI could be an experiment of / by / for the owner of the site

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by john61ct

of course the AI could be an experiment of / by / for the owner of the site

If it is, the developers need to send it out prowling elsewhere.

[Greg Mason]

We simply have a code which explains, at least to us what a new boat in the anchorage is doing. Chuck anchor, drinks is one, playing anchor darts is another. 30' of chain and 180' of rode explains another approach, but without witnessing a vessel backing down is just unsafe boating practise.

[john61ct]

Originally Posted by Sailmonkey

If it is, the developers need to send it out prowling elsewhere.

Huh? What happens in these forums is strictly up to our host, the owner of the site.

Members can complain or make suggestions, but it is a private space, we have right to demand anything.

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Huh? What happens in these forums is strictly up to our host, the owner of the site.

Members can complain or make suggestions, but it is a private space, we have right to demand anything.

So you’re fine with the endless drivel from this poster? I’ve blocked the posts, but am amazed by the volume of the inane word jumbles.

[BingoBird]

Originally Posted by rick bertram

He has a valid complaint. A lot of people have never taken sailing / boating classes and learn by doing so they don’t even know they’re making a mistake . So many boaters don’t know how to anchor. I’d ask if they need some help or point out your boats swing radius. So many issues with anchoring and no real cut and paste answers.

Couldn't agree more. In the States, all you need is money to get a boat. That, somehow, makes you automatically knowledgeable. Anchoring is just one of many aspects of sailing that a lot of folks are not versed in yet they have nice, large boats floating about.


Is ASA certification going to make you proficient? Of course not. That comes by being out there and doing it. It does give you a solid footing in understanding how to go about things. And you learn lifesaving lingo such as "it's not a map, it's a chart". ;=)