"DSK" wrote in message ...
Jeff Morris wrote:

.... actually, I could have walked it out, since we were
trying to position in the middle of a very small creek.

Aren't shoal draft boats great?

This day its was even sweeter than normal because we were along up this little cove, while
300 boats were anchored out - It was a NY Yacht Club Rendezvous on the same day JFK Jr's
plane went down, so many didn't go over to the Vineyard. Here's a pic from our boat:

http://www.sv-loki.com/Along_the_Way/Hadley.jpg


A liveaboard friend likes to
point to a little Danforth stern anchor and say "That's the one that held us for the
'Storm of the Century' "


Not to be mean but it seems he should have planned better. I say that in full
awareness that for the only hurricane I have had full responsibility for securing the
boat, we
were holed up in a great spot pretty much by blind luck.


This was the big late winter Superstorm in 1993. They were somewhere south, maybe around
Albemarle Sound, or maybe further South. They carry two Delta-like experimental anchors
donated by one of the major manufacturers for testing. Since they have lived at anchor
for much of the last 20 years, they probably know more about the art (especially in the
ICW) than anyone. I believe they almost alone in small bay and set up the two primary
anchors in the direction from which they expected the worst wind. A backup Danforth was
rowed out to one side of the plows, and then as an afterthought, the stern anchor, an
experimental Danforth-like mud anchor with no stock was carried ashore toward the other
side and buried in the mud. It turned out the worst wind came from that direction and it
held just fine. As it happened the storm hit at low tide so the anchor was actually above
them - is that negative scope?


You may be thinking of 'Coarse Sailing' which was about chartering on the Broads.

I think you're right

In 'Coarse Cruising' the same author owns shares a small cruiser with some friends,
sailing to
France & Holland among other adventures... I'm going to go dig out my copy now...