18 July: Meet me in the Bouncy House at Midnight...
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 08:55AM Bouncey house at midnight.
We sailed from Isla Fronterra yesterday. A beautiful sail. We are in a spectacular narrow cove with deep walls and clear, warm, azure water. The cove is protected on three sides, with the exception being from the east…which is, of course, now the direction from which we have been enduring 20 knot winds since 10 pm last night with 4 to occasional 6 foot swells. The cove can comfortably accommodate 10 boats, and there are 11. Our comfort-zone with anchoring is about 18-20 feet of depth. We’re in 24 feet. We prefer to anchor in sand, but our anchor (after 3 tries at setting) is on the border between weeks and sand. It was a night on the edge of our comfort zone.
Our choices are to pull up anchor in a crowded harbor at midnight and re-set the anchor where we are (a spot we do not particularly feel comfortable with), move our boat to shallower water but weave in between the other 10 spinning bobbing boats that stand between us and the preferred anchorage, leave (to go where, into unprotected waters but away from land?), or stay put and have someone do anchorwatch all night. We decided on the latter. It is now 7:30 am, and I have been back on watch since 6:30. I was up from 12-3. The boat has moved maybe 4-5 feet, but there is the is the everpresent anxiety that a huge swell will come and dislodge the anchor. That doesn’t meet we skitter across the harbor as the anchor will find a new hold. But given the fact that there is substantial weed patches, we could potentially slip too close for comfort to our neighboring boat, or worse, those ammunition –laden shores.
Many of our neighbors have been up last night too—executing on the options laid out above. No one is comfortable in this kind of weather, and if there is any comfort, it is that we all share the same fears.
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