Anchoring (overnight)
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:49 pm
While on the subject (maybe a new thread?), any and all advice on anchoring overnight is more than welcome. This will be a new experience for me. At the 120, I just beached the boat and tied/anchored the bow off to something onshore, since I was not sleeping aboard. On this trip I will either anchor bows out, with the stern tied/anchored ashore, or I will anchor out away from shore. I had one #5 danforth anchor before, now I have a #7 as well. Both have 5' of chain and about 75' of line. Sailing area will be at and around the spoil islands of the East FL intracoastal waterway at Sebastian. Bottom is mostly sand and mud, with depths from a couple feet to 15-20 feet. Currents will change with the tides, as it's pretty close to Sebastian Inlet. I guess one has to see if the forecasted wind is higher than the current speed in order to predict which way the boat might swing around?