Friday was wet and very windy, we had put up Elektra’s cockpit enclosure the evening before, so we were dry. Many other yachts had joined us in Channals Creek the evening before and during the morning before the wind picked up.
“Anchoring is a spectacular sport” I am always interested to see which type anchor new arrivals are deploying. Most anchors work very well but l am always a little worried if their anchor is a CQR especially if they anchor up wind from us! I have learnt over the years that CQR anchors don’t work well, their skippers must think it’s normal to need to lay their anchor 3x before it holds! If the wind gets up or changes the CQR anchors are the first to drag. I wasn’t over concerned because we had anchored in fairly shallow water, so not many would anchor north of us.
Elektra has a genuine Bruce anchor, which in tests doesn’t always perform well. But having been at anchor over 250 nights since buying Elektra in 2016, the anchor has dragged 3 times. Twice in weed which we try to avoid now and once when the anchor hooked a football size rock which stopped it digging in.
Love Sailing 