Happy turkey day from Swansboro, NC. We set sail at twilight this morning and had a good day – we made it South about fifty five miles down the ICW from Oriental to a nice anchorage here in Swansboro.
There were a few crazy people on the water today one that no matter how much we tried to stay away from him he seemed to try to crash into us constantly. The crazy person finally took a different route. All in all it was a fine day, sunny and warm for the most part.
The anchorage we are in is a river mouth that leads to and from the ICW and the current here is super strong and when anchoring one must use two anchors… One is dropped from the bow and an over abundant amount of chain and line is set, then one must drop an anchor off the stern of the boat but still coming through at the bow and then pull the boat forward using the first anchor to set the second. This creates a one hundred eight degree split between the two anchors – so when the tide that moves at six knots, or better, switches if one anchor cuts loose when the current switches and is moving the opposite direction the other is still holding strong. This is called anchoring Bohemian style. There are three boats behind us that would not listen to the advice and I am setting an alarm so when the tide switches I can see where they go when their anchor slips and does not reset… Hopefully not into me but I have my super loud fog horn ready!
Well Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoy this funny video… lol
Wolfbernz