Tag: #anchors

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  Anchors and Anchoring

  22nd February 2023 (updated February 2024) Reading Time 20 Minutes Before we start Sumara is a long-keeled boat, 26 foot long, weighing about 5 tonnes. She tends to lie to the current, rather than the wind. The boat does not have a windlass. My final choice of anchor tackle needed to cope with fairly extreme…

  Alasdair

  14 March 2023

  Gear – Yachting and Boating, Gear and Provisions, Sailing in General

  #anchorchain, #anchorchums, #anchors, #fortressanchors, #rocna, #rocnaanchors, #snubbers

• It’s so beautiful!

  Positon N70,58.189 x W008,41.469. Anchored in 8.2 mKvalrosbukta, Jan Mayen We have had a truly amazing day. Gentle winds with occasional calms wafted us north towards the east coast of Jan Mayen whilst being entertained by Northern Bottlenose Whales, Fulmars and Puffins. The Mighty Beerenberg Volcano has been very shy and hid all day behind…

  Gerry Jeatt

  6 July 2011

  Arctic, Beerenberg – The Climb, Climbing, Gear – Yachting and Boating, Gear and Provisions, Jan Mayen, The Jan Mayen Expedition

  #anchors, #beerenberg, #janmayen, #kvalrossbukta, #rocna, #sumara, #thembi