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(JAXAshby) wrote in message ...
Well, you should inform the Navy and the cruise lines. They could save a
lot of money on ground tackle.

Well, you should inform the Navy and the cruise lines. They could save a
lot of money on ground tackle.

dum-dum, you are. both the Navy and cruise ships -- when at anchor -- keep
their engines running to be used to get the hell out of Dodge should the winds
become too strong.

Are you suggesting that large ships should use rope to anchor in heavy
weather? Or are you suggesting that smaller boats can't get their
engines started fast enough to beat feet from an anchorage?

Keeping the power plant available at anchor maybe the case for older
steam driven ships - keeping the boilers warm. Not so for most modern
ships. I asked the captain of the cruise ship we were on, while
anchored at Cabo a couple of years ago, if the engines were running.
He answered no. That ship had azipods (sp?) so the drive power was
electric.

I never asked about engines running at achor on a previous cruise, but
it appeared that the engines were shut down and you could feel the one
start just before we departed the anchorage. I say "the one" as on
that trip the destinations were so close together that the ship made
very slow way - on one engine - for the entire cruise. That was also
based on information from the captain during a tour of the ship's
bridge.

I took a day cruise on the USCGC Munro (370' cutter) a couple of years
and we anchored for a couple of hours in SF bay. We visited the
engine room while anchored and I recall the Fairbanks diesels were
shut down. They never started the turbines used for high speed work.