Why don't you tie up to something on land? Can't you float
in about 1' of water?

SBV


"JimC" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

If the holding is good and you're only going to be there
a short time, and
it's during the day, you don't need an anchor light, and
you don't need to
keep a watch. Why two anchors? Is the bottom that lousy
or the wind/current
shifting that much? How did you deploy?


I may want to spend the night on occasion. The reasons for
two anchors
are as follows:

A. There may be traffic in and out, and I want to restrict
the "swing"
so I stay in a relatively small area. I may have to
change to one
anchor if other boats are on a single anchor and I have to
swing with
the crowd, but I don't think that will be the case.

B. Just north of the island is the Houston-Galveston ship
channel, with
lots of traffic of all kinds. Two anchors, even if both
are on the bow,
provide a little better security and backup, particularly
if there is a
change in tide direction that might lead to dragging one
of the anchors.
In particular, I would hate to wake up in the middle of
the night and
find that, due to a change in tidal currents, a single
anchor
(originally set hard with 7:1 scope) was dragging and I
was floating
across the Houston ship channel.

Jim