Middle Watch Musings
• Jul. 20, 2008 - Interesting Anchoring Incident.
We are currently anchored in Ganges Harbour, on Saltspring Island. It is a very crowded anchorage because of the fun touristy town of Ganges. While here we witnessed a funny anchoring story.
Late last night a sad looking Alberg 37 named CUMARA, flying a French tricolour, wandered into the anchorage. It was towing a half deflated dinghy, and it looked less than shipshape. It pulled up near us and dropped a Danforth, on about 30 feet of chain, right beside a large power boat named KANAKA moored to a mooring buoy. They paid out about 200 feet of rode and drifted with the brisk wind back behind the power boat so the power boat was between CUMARA and his anchor. This did not seem to concern the skipper at all. There was no one on KANAKA.
This morning when I woke up CUMARA had swung to the other side of KANAK with the overnight tide change and now had her anchor rode wrapped completely around the mooring buoy chain. When the tide changed again, CUMARA blew down wind (as did KANAK and they both ended up beside each other. The skipper heard the boats bump and got up. The first thing he did was take a leak over the side while surveying his problem. He pushed off KANAKA and then went down and made himself a coffee. Then he came up and found himself in the same position again. He started to weigh anchor and realized his situation and flashed his engine.
Needless to say it was a bit of a goat f#*% as he untangled his rode from the buoy mooring. He quietly left. I don't think either boat was any worse for the experience. Fun to watch though!
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