I was about to make the same point when I read Andy's post.
My practice is to drop the hook and let out rode to my target length as wind & current take the boat back. Then spend 5 or 10 minutes admiring the scenery and other boats while the wind and boat motion settle the anchor and chain into the bottom. I usually take bearings on a couple of prominent landmarks. Then I back down on the anchor, starting at about 1000 rpm to stretch out the rode (I have 65 feet of chain on each of my primary anchors, which takes some straightening out at times), then increase slowly to about 1600-2000 RPM to dug the anchor into the bottom. With this practice there have been very few times I've needed to haul and re-anchor, and those have been in really soupy mud for the most part. Dennis used 4:1 scope in his example of how much rode to let out. Most folks seem to use 3:1 to 5:1 if you have an all chain rode, and 7:1 to 10:1 if your rode is mostly rope. More is better in high winds and waves, but you need to be in the same ball park as the boats around you to avoid swinging into another boat if the wind changes. Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Burton Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:23 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Toronto to the Thousand Islands The operative phrase being "after you've set the anchor." Don't back down hard until it's dug in a bit. I often see people drop their hook then rev the engine in reverse and back through the anchorage dragging the anchor along the bottom. Andy C&C 40 Peregrine On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Dennis C. <capt...@yahoo.com> wrote: Stevan, The most common mistake novice anchorers make is to not include the height of the bow in the calculation of scope. For instance if it is 3 feet from the water to your bow chock and you are anchoring in 20 feet of water, multiply your desired scope by 20 + 3. So if you want 5:1 scope, it would be 5 x 23 or 115 feet at the bow chock. Once you've set the hook, back down HARD and watch an object in the water to see if you are dragging. If your GPS has an anchor alarm (most do), set it and relax. Dennis C. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Stevan Plavsa <stevanpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > This will be my first real cruise and I was hoping for some pointers from other Lake Ontario sailors. I'm looking for tips on places to anchor along the way and clubs to stay at, places to avoid, things to be aware of. We've only done overnights at other clubs thus far. We do have the ports cruising guide. > > A friend just loaned me a set of paper charts that will cover the entire cruise for which I'm very grateful (lots of charts! $$$) but they are out of date, not sure how much of a big deal that is, he didn't seem to think it was a big deal at all. > > We have two anchors, a big CQR and a smaller delta, 50 feet of chain and another 150 of rode. Haven't ever spent a night on the hook either so any gotchas on that topic would be handy as well. I have a few books that I've studied so I understand these things in principle .. no better way to learn than by doing so we're going for it. August 10 to 26 is the time we have booked off which means that we're starting this thing during the Perseid Meteor shower .. I really want to do on an overnight passage with my girlfriend, say from Toronto to Cobourg or something like that so that we can enjoy the meteor shower out on the lake. I'm a sucker for that annual meteor shower and haven't gotten to enjoy it in years. I know enough to avoid the shipping lanes other than that an overnight on the lake seems pretty straightforward. > > Any thoughts and recommendations are much welcome. > > Thanks, > Steve > Suhana, C&C 32 > Toronto > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com -- Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Ave Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ phone +401 965 5260
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