anchoring

  1. Sailing to Drake’s Bay

    E32-200 Sailing to Drake’s Bay

    TLDR: I took an overnight trip to Drake’s Bay, north of San Francisco with two friends. Anchoring out in high winds was a little scary, but we had a nice trip nonetheless. The San Francisco Bay is one of the finest natural harbors in the world, but it took European seafaring explorers a...
  2. A great cruise during not-so-great times

    E32-3 A great cruise during not-so-great times

    My girlfriend and I, she being an employment victim of COVID, and me being a fortunate work-from-home tech worker, decided to make the best of it and head north for a social distancing trip to... wherever, really. It ended up being the San Juan Islands, where the county tourism board recently...
    • Geoff W.
    • Blog entry
    • 32-3 anacortes anchoring cruising cypress island patos island port townshend puget sound san juan islands seattle
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Racing & Cruising
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    Anchoring question

    I'm heading up to Paradise Cove tomorrow for an overnight trip. It's strange to think I've never anchored my own boats in almost 10 years of boat ownership. I've anchored several times on other's and hundreds of times in my mind so I'm not worried about the procedure. I took stock of my ground...
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    Anchoring dilemma and question

    We anchor out quite often, sometimes in difficult conditions, so our process needs to be as smooth and foolproof as possible. We have a problem because the 1/2" nylon line is attached to the chain with a thimble that measures about 2" and this is too big to ride smoothly on the anchor...
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    Proposed Florida anchoring restrictions

    Attention Florida sailors. I want to call your attention to an article in the January 2009 issue of Southwinds Sailing. On page 35 there is an article about new anchoring restrictions being proposed by the FWC. You can read the article on the Southwinds site www.southwindsmagazine.com. Once...
  6. C

    Anchoring Technique

    Maybe an interesting question, maybe a dumb question but I fear not...:esad: I have owned 3 Ericson's now, including my current E38-200. My previous ones were an E27 & E35 MKII. Both went head to wind, drop hook, back down, blah blah. Now my 38 is a different story. Last Friday I was showing...
  7. Mike Thomas

    Anchoring / Swinging committee boat

    This will be my first full year with the local race club and I have committee boat duty for one race. At anchor I usually swing around the hook pretty bad. (Beer helps me to ignore it). I can't imagine holding a good starting line for the rest of the club with my boat swinging around as it...
  8. 1973E29 TUG

    Boat Swings Wildly at Anchor in a breeze

    I dont know if anyone else has noticed their boat swing around a lot while at anchor in a moderate to heavy breeze. It seems that other boats in the same anchorage lie relatively calmly into the wind while our Ericson 29 is pacing back and fourth like a spooked horse. Watching the boat for...
    • 1973E29 TUG
    • Thread
    • 1976 anchor anchor sail anchoring boat breeze riding riding sail sail sailrite swings wildly
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Cruising & Racing
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    Norwalk Islands Anchoring?

    I will be down in this area early next week, and having never been there, am wondering about anchoring locations. Looking at the chart, there seem to be only a couple of accessible spots for a 6' draft, north side of Sheffield, between Copps and Chimon...Any advice from someone who's been...
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    Anchoring Sites

    I have been given a couple of suggestions but am looking for more. I need a relatively quiet spot in the San Diego Bay area to practice anchoring without getting in the way of traffic. (The channel on the backside of Harbor Island is ideal except it can get very busy.) Since I will be...
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    Anchoring questions

    I spent my first night at anchor on Nirvana (1984 E-38) this past weekend and have come up with a number of questions: 1. The bottom of the anchor locker has a padeye to which I have tied the bitter end of the rode. When securing the knot I pulled up on the rode and noticed that the entire...
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