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Helping a Member Choose an Anchor
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A real world example demonstrating how each of us must think carefully about our own needs when selecting an anchor, not just blindly follow tests or anecdotal reports.
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Things I Learned From Three Anchoring Reports
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We can learn a lot from field reports, as long as we select the right ones to learn from and keep an open mind.
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Two More Anchor Selection Criteria
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John forgot two important anchor selection criteria in the last article, so this one fixes that.
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Support Steve at SV Panope
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Let’s support a guy who is making a real difference.
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Colin on Anchoring
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Colin shares some techniques he was reminded of while spending the summer cruising the south coast of Newfoundland, a challenging place to anchor if ever there was one.
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The Right Anchor
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There are so many anchors and so many conflicting claims it’s hard to know what to buy. In this chapter we cut through the fog with clear recommendations of the anchors that work and a warning list of those that we don’t trust.
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Setting The Anchor
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Colin shares his technique for making sure the anchor is well set.
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Storm Mooring
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I have written in the past about our distrust of moorings and how we generally prefer to be on our own anchor when the winds blow hard. However, there is one exception to that rule: our own mooring at our Base Camp.
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Chafe-Pro Review
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Chafe-Pro provides an off-the-shelf solution for protecting vulnerable lines from chafe.
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Q&A: How To Design A Shorefast System
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How to build and use a shorefast system for boats.
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Mooring Failure, The Loss Of “Kantele”
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On 28th December last year a beautiful Saga 40—an English design not to be confused with this boat—was lost when she went ashore at Sint Eustatius in the eastern Caribbean when a mooring provided for yachts by the local marine park, STENAPA, failed in what looks from the photograph to be benign conditions.
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Shorefasts And Line Reels on “Polaris”
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A few months ago we published a photo essay about Polaris, the custom Hutting 54 especially designed and built for cruising remote places, owned by our friends Michael and Martina. Since then several people have asked about the line reels shown in the photographs. I passed these questions on to Michael and got the following answers.
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Mooring Gear—Staying Put
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What does the word “harbour” mean to you? A safe haven, perhaps, sheltered from all sides? Well, in some of the less frequented parts of the world it can mean something quite different. Many “harbours”, such as Hugh Town on St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly, are far from safe in all conditions, being open to winds from the west and to the Atlantic swell.
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Q&A: What Do You Think Of Mooring Stern-to?
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion: The Jordan Series Drogue website is fascinating and leads to an interesting question. Faced with anchoring/mooring Morgan’s Cloud for a hurricane, would you be inclined to go stern-to? Jordan makes a fairly compelling argument…although I imagine Morgan’s Cloud is relatively stable as compared to the latest cruiser/racer hull forms.
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