The anchor specialist
Yesterday we have met the species "anchor specialist". When we came back from a tour in the village a german sailing boat was anchoring very close to us. I thought maybe they are here for the daytime only on so i did not bother to say anything.
At around 22:00 in the evening the wind changed direction and we were moving in their direction. I asked them how much chain they have out and the skipper replied: I dont know, we have everything out. A skipper who does not know how much chain he got? And did not bother to know how much is out? I told him that we have 35m out and that we might get to close. Usually the skipper who came last is the one to move. We suddenly even had to start engines and move away when the wind was picking up to 20 knots. I asked him if he can move and the reply was: "Thats difficult, we have also moored into an old chain on the sea bed". I was puzzled. They had all anchor change out AND moored into an unknown chain? So after observing it for 30 minutes we decided to shorten our anchor chain to gain some space. The water was 10m deep and so i slowly pulled the chain up till the 20m mark, then reattached the triangular lines and lowered it and so we had a total of around 25m out. That was the minimum for such a bay with steep cliffs. The skipper also asked if we should tie our boats together and i asked him how heavy his yacht is. The answer "I don´t know" was again surprising (or not). So we decided against this option. In the morning they must have left around sunrise. When we got up around 8.30 they were already gone....
At around 22:00 in the evening the wind changed direction and we were moving in their direction. I asked them how much chain they have out and the skipper replied: I dont know, we have everything out. A skipper who does not know how much chain he got? And did not bother to know how much is out? I told him that we have 35m out and that we might get to close. Usually the skipper who came last is the one to move. We suddenly even had to start engines and move away when the wind was picking up to 20 knots. I asked him if he can move and the reply was: "Thats difficult, we have also moored into an old chain on the sea bed". I was puzzled. They had all anchor change out AND moored into an unknown chain? So after observing it for 30 minutes we decided to shorten our anchor chain to gain some space. The water was 10m deep and so i slowly pulled the chain up till the 20m mark, then reattached the triangular lines and lowered it and so we had a total of around 25m out. That was the minimum for such a bay with steep cliffs. The skipper also asked if we should tie our boats together and i asked him how heavy his yacht is. The answer "I don´t know" was again surprising (or not). So we decided against this option. In the morning they must have left around sunrise. When we got up around 8.30 they were already gone....
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