It *was* that light and sandy shore to the W+S, and open water to the N+E.
Still, in hindsight I should not have been so lazy and set another, even the
lunch hook(?).

Two nights later it was blowing 12-16kts in a different anchorage. One boat
dragged some and they reset, looked like a plow anchor with lots of chain. I
held OK.


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville PA __/)__/)__


"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
...
If the wind is really light, you're probably just sitting to the anchor
chain. Before I
switched to the "anchor smarter, not heavier" philosophy, I used 90 feet
of chain; it took
a significant wind to stretch that out. A problem with this is that
everyone else would
move 150 feet with a wind shift, while we moved 20 feet.

In the Chesapeake soft mud is the typical bottom, and the shores are
relatively benign, so
the Danforth is probably the best anchor. But in a harsher environment I
wouldn't trust
the Danforth to handle major shifts. I've had too many occurrences of a
Danforth or
Fortress totally releasing and failing to reset. I use a Delta, with a
Fortress as a
lunch hook or second anchor.


"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
The other night, NOAA was predicting 'light & variable winds'. When I
anchored it was blowing (barely) E. by the time I got the grill going
it
was NE. Till I finished my steak it was N. wind. By dessert it was
Westerly.
It went like that all night, every time I woke to check I was pointed
different. The wind was light enough that the anchor (Danforth, 15'
3/8''
chain) didn't drag.
How would you anchor in this?


--
Scotty
S/V Lisa Marie
Balt. MD USA