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RE: Moving to paradise. From creating QuickPay for Quicken to living on a sailboat in the Caribbean - Part 2 - Sint Maarten to Virgin Gorda and almost crashing on the rocks
Oh man! The situation with an anchor is very familiar to me - when we're just got a boat, this mistake was one of the first we've made 😁
And how much times we were catching someone's boat near our or near the rocks!
But everything came with experience, and sailing makes you skilled af🤘🏻
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Oh you reminded me of a story I was told by a bareboat owner. He said that after 3 days he gets a call from one of his renters and said "Can you send someone out? We ran out of anchors." After they stayed the night they would just untie it from the deck and leave it at the bottom of the ocean. I couldn't really believe people would be that stupid or maybe just stupid enough to believe the owner telling me that story. Either way it was funny because we got to see and actually do many crazy things ourselves. Yes it is all a learning experience.
the rule is this Mike !! 5 times more chain than the depth of water beneath your boat !! So in 10 meters of depth you will be needing 50 meters, simple as that !! There are some who cut corners and some that don't ! Cutting corners in sailing can put you and your crew in big trouble in the fraction of a second..... never cut corners, give you and your boat and crew for that matter lots of leeway. ; - ) But don't worry about dragging happens to the best and the worst, a fact of life for people who live on water !! great post, nicely written. Look forward to your next story !! will follow now !!