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Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 18:28

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Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Hint: with the helm over one way or the other, the bow and stern move in opposite directions. That is the definition of turning. Rotation of the boat around the keel.

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 18:24

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

So how about the drawing?

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I am absolutely sure, that every single CFer, including Raku, will give the right answer to this question:

With the tiller and rudder turned the way they are...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 18:15

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Sorry, Raku, I did not write those words. Look up through the posts. I do not actually like having my posts forged in quotations -- please desist from this practice.

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 18:04

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Correct! Tiller towards the dock in reverse, and bow will smash into the dock, just as you say. But the stern moves away from the dock, contrary to what some have said.

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 18:01

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Views: 29,750

Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Sorry, the phrase "OK, so which way is North?" was not written by me. I never use sarcasm when teaching anything.

Let's cut through all this absurd nonsense and look at the drawing. Forget port...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 07:06

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

How a tiller works. Pay close attention everyone -- this is really complicated:

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Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 06:29

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

This is surrealistic!

Raku, think about this for just a second, will you, instead of just arguing for the sake of arguing?

If you put the tiller over to the "south" as you say, what direction...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 05:02

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Views: 29,750

Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

That's a good explanation :thumb:

Scoobert, in fairness to sailors, many, maybe most sailboats do not back up straight. Dealing with prop walk and the phenomenon of steerage way can be very...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 04:41

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Views: 29,750

Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

In a spirit of sincere helpfulness, Raku, people have been trying to tell you that this is not so.

If you are reversing and face the stern, and you push the tiller to starboard (your left hand),...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2013, 03:27

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Exactly so.

It's hard for to imagine how anyone could be confused by this, but the rudder does not magically jump around to the other side when reversing, just because it is attached to a tiller.

Forum: General Sailing Forum

09-10-2013, 08:15

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

It's been many years, so I don't remember the...

It's been many years, so I don't remember the exact model. Must have been 40 pounds or so. It was a genuine, forged one, and I do remember it cost a fortune. I had 200 feet of 3/8 chain and used a...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

09-10-2013, 07:46

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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I always use an anchor alarm, sometimes two (INavX on an IPad next to the bunk is nice backup).

But back in the day, with that horrible CQR, GPS anchor alarms weren't invented yet. The...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

09-10-2013, 05:20

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Ah, this is funny! This is turning into a general thread on Boat Phobias! Probably a very worthy subject.

Docking is of course one of the trickier skills we have to master, and I'm sure...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 12:34

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

LOL! A real classic! Beautiful post :thumb:

LOL! A real classic! Beautiful post :thumb:

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 09:39

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Do not of course back down without the chain belayed somehow! You will kill your windlass! And as Cheechako said above, don't back down with the snubber on! It will dampen any vibration and you...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 08:49

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Then it's much prettier than my Spade :D

I've anchored out so much in the last two years that most of the galvanizing is off the Spade and it looks really ugly. A bit of a quandry since the...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 08:45

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Boy, you have a really major case of anchor-o-phobia! :)

You should -- like the rest of us! -- try to relax more. Sounds like you're doing fine :thumb:

You don't need to see what's happening...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 05:19

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

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Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

I might add that we spent the better part of month at anchor this past summer on our summer cruise, and I made a lot of progress with my anchor-o-phobia mental disease.

The anchoring went...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 05:13

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Views: 29,750

Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Nope. You configure your radio to automatically accept and respond to position requests, and it will do so.

I have my handheld configured the same way, so that if I am on the mother ship, and...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

08-10-2013, 05:03

Replies: 331

Does constant anchoring wear you down?

Views: 29,750

Posted By Dockhead

Re: Does constant anchoring wear you down?

A good topic.

I spent my first decade of cruising lying to an abominable (and misnamed) CQR anchor, so my introduction to anchoring was by way of complete insecurity, knowing that if the wind...

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