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Subject: RE: TWL: anchor stories
From: Joe Engel (joe@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 16:39:35 EST
I can tell you an anchor story that still makes me shudder.
Pretty simple really. We anchored our 40 foot Tolly just off the main
channel in a little back eddy of the Columbia River. About 300 yards
astern of us was a very substantial moorage with many expensive type
boats floating serenely in their slips.
I was enjoying a morning coffee when along comes my friend with his 48
foot Tolly. "Can I raft alongside?" asks he. "Sure" says I. "Do I
need to run my anchor out too?" asks he. "Nah", says I, "were well set
and solid as a rock here." And so we were. We enjoyed each others
company all morning and as lunch approached we decided to dinghy ashore
to a riverside restaurant. After the meal, we returned to the dinghy.
Where are our boats? asks he. "Uhhhh - look downriver a few hundred
yards" says I. "Ohhh Shxxxxxt" says we both.
By some miracle, my anchor had hooked up again with the stern of our
vessels about 50 feet from the moorage and the moored boats. I would
guess that the combined weight of our boats was about 30 tons. The
current was probably about 4 knots. It's arguable whether the head walk
of that moorage would have carried away with all the boats in a domino
effect through the moorage or whether we would just have pinned
ourselves to the headwall requiring a tug to pull us away and extreme
public humiliation.
But I still shudder.
Joe Engel
Portland, OR
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