You are setting your anchors badly and then blaming the anchors

[blackswan]

Our eight year experience in the eastern med was that the charters were not the worst in an anchorage as they were always willing to listen if you politely rowed over and asked them to give you more swinging room.
The worst seamanship was displayed by the summer yachtie who has sailed from the uk or northern europe and therefore knows everything.
We always learnt something new every day but the best defensive anchoring trick is to avoid the busy anchorages in july and august. This can be done in the busiest of places by sailing slightly off the beaten track and as the weather is always predictable in these months you dont need a bombproof anchorage to sleep well at night. Try Halki/Livadia in the rhodes/marmaris area etc

photo below is in the eastern med (greece) in july, doesn't look busy to me..

[ixnax]

Originally Posted by Dockhead

I agree with Fuss that a boat floating above your anchor doesn't necessarily mean it's anchored either wrong or inconsiderately. In a crowded anchorage, this may be inevitable. In crowded anchorages, boats are usually anchored close enough together, in any case, that if they swung in different directions, they might collide. But since most boats with roughly the same scope out will swing roughly the same, this is usually not a problem, so it is usually not necessary to anchor so far apart that there are no other boats within theoretically overlapping swinging circles.

I am deeper draft than average and have a long, heavy chain, so I do my best to avoid crowded anchorages, usually just by anchoring a bit further out than the crowd. If there's shelter enough, water up to 20 meters deep is not a problem for us. Or best of all, just don't cruise where there are crowds. Where I am now (Eastern Baltic), there are millions of islands and coves, and I have not yet shared an anchorage with even one other boat so far this summer. Bliss!

Negative. Boatman is correct. Ending up over someones anchor is an unacceptable move. One afternoon in Le Marin, just as we were getting ready to leave, a boat zoomed in, dropped anchor, ended up over top of ours and totally blew us off screaming "no problem" as they sped off in their dinghy. Fortunately, friends moved them aside with their dinghy so we could depart. Bottom line: if there is no room at the inn then move on.

[MicHughV]

oh goody....anudder anchor thread...

[donradcliffe]

Its not another anchor thread, its a dead one that someone has resurrected.

[MicHughV]

There has only ever been one recorded resurrection on planet earth, and I don't think anchors qualified for this feat....but this here thread proves me wrong I guess...

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

There has only ever been one recorded resurrection on planet earth, and I don't think anchors qualified for this feat....but this here thread proves me wrong I guess...

I thought there were at least 2..

[MicHughV]

yes, you are correct.....two...I'll go sit in the corner now...

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

yes, you are correct.....two...I'll go sit in the corner now...

[Bowdrie]

Originally Posted by boatman61

I thought there were at least 2..

I think their were 3,,seem to remember a widows son?

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Bowdrie

I think their were 3,,seem to remember a widows son?

Dunno.. only recall Lazarus..

[Bowdrie]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Dunno.. only recall Lazarus..

I Kings 18:17>22.

[thinwater]

I just remembered. There is something worse than a resurrected anchor thread....


Biblical proofs.

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

There has only ever been one recorded resurrection on planet earth, and I don't think anchors qualified for this feat....but this here thread proves me wrong I guess...

Oh, there have been lots... It's a pretty common part of any big mythology:


Resurrection: A History of Myths

10 Resurrected Religious Figures