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This weekend I nearly lost Tangra, when a Force 9-10 storm hit Paphos with wind and waves coming from unprotected southern direction. The same storm smashed a 10m wide gap through the sea wall of the most expensive marina on the island, and grounded a small tanker, that is spoiling the seaview from my office window for the last three days.
Thanks to some (CENSORED) bastard, who put a (CENSORED) jetski pontoon inside the harbour just befor the event, tying it with a couple of (CENSORED) 8mm shoestrings, the boat broke from stern lines, and was lying from morning to morning almost smack in the middle of harbor entrance, along a ~3 kts current and across waves and wind, 20 meters off leeward rocks. Scary sight, if I ever saw one.
What saved the day for me was 72 pound original CQR and 30 m of 12mm chain. Paphos has a very poor holding ground - it's thin mud over a flat rock. Amazingly, the CQR held. The other anchor I had out (25 kg fisherman) was worthless (naturally, for that kind of bottom).
Morale: oversized CQR on chain rules.
Alex Verhovsky
s/y Tangra
P.S. No strings attached to the manufacturer, except that 30m chain, mentioned above.
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