I departed the club at 11:30 with some help from Chaos. A glorious day of sailing in 23C weather
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| Chaos |
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| Chaos |
I tried to anchor at Dowker’s but I kept hitting bottom, even as I tried to get out of the bay. So I went sailing around the lake one more circuit and anchored at Grand Anse, ready for 15 knots gusting to 30.
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| Sailing into the sunset |
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| The forecast was for a windy night |
The anchor alarm came on a few times as she dragged a few feet.
At 5am the expected gusts came up to 28 knots from the North and the anchor dragged south 400 feet. Then she dragged 1/2 nM to the shallows in the southeast. I came to the cockpit, started the engine, and tried to keep the boat from drifting.
At 5:45, I let out another 50 feet of rode for 130 feet, which seemed to stop the dragging. I was now in 8 feet of water. The initial anchorage was 6 feet.
In theory, the west wind forecasted would have dragged her safely into the main lake.
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| Drifted from Original anchor to Final Anchor |
At 9 AM, I started to pull the anchor in 15- 19 knots of winds. It was a slow delicate process of moving the boat forward, pulling in some rode, clearing the rode from under the windlass, moving the boat forward, repeat. Naturally, there was a large bunch of weeds and we were close to shallow water.
Motored out of Grande Anse and sailed back to the club in 15 knots WNW.
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