IOW festival Saturday..

[annageek]

Also... just to give you an idea... here is a timelaps the OH did with us at anchor a fortnight ago at Osborne Bay. It's a bit weird, but cool the way the focus of the surroundings fades with the light, but the boat's bow remains in focus.



There's just something about the place that makes it so worthwhile.

[Ianfs]

That time lapse is so cool.

[ColinR]

How do you sleep at anchor? Do you have total trust and sleep soundly or do you wake up every now and then to check you're not heading off down the Solent?

[mark101]

Great pics/vid. I thought the IOW festival was in August - gutted.


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[Matt13]

Love that sunset pic

[annageek]

How do you sleep at anchor? Do you have total trust and sleep soundly or do you wake up every now and then to check you're not heading off down the Solent?

It's not too bad!! Osborne bay has great holding, and we use the biggest Danforth anchor we can fit in our anchor locker, with 5m of chain. Also, if staying overnight, I normally pay out 6-8X depth scope of rode/chain rather than the usual 4-6X that I'd use if we were just stopping for the day. This way, the chances of slipping/dragging on the anchor are slim.

We put the anchor alarm on such that it goes off when we swing / if anything goes nastily awry, and one of us will pop our head out to check all is well before crawling back into the cuddy. I find I naturally wake once or twice during the night too, and when I do, I tend to go out on deck - out of curiosity more than anything. It is a lovely place to be, even when it's freezing cold. If there's ships moving (especially cruise ships) it's a real treat! Really eerie, but really nice

[_Ed_]

Anchor alarm is exactly what I do too when I've stopped overnight. I still find I sleep lightly, but not so bad that I don't sleep. Don't exactly have the right boat for it however hahaha.

[betty boop]

sleep at anchor = never - eyes like this by the time morning comes

in a marina- now thats a different story, even roughing it without a posh cuddy to hide in,

[annageek]

There is always this little trick that I found on one particularly rough night... I took a couple of Stugeron sea sickness tablets, as was feeling the onset and it wasn't shifting. I didn't realise that they interracted with alcohol, and a couple of ciders later, I was out like a light until about 10 :00am the next morning!! One of the best nights of sleep I've ever had! Fortunately, the OH stayed off them and took charge of being lookout!

Nowadays, I just go without (without Stugeron... not cider!)

[Ianfs]

Anna

At what distance do you set your anchor alarm?

Reason for asking is that I think and could be completely wrong here but hasn't Osborne Bay got a shelf about 400m off shore? Most of it I'm sure is about 2m above chart datum, apart from the drying bit that is. Consequently and I'm guessing here, if you pay out 8 times, your length is about 16m plus the tide height. If you are on the shelf then you could be approx. 128m of rope.

The swing is about 1/3 of a km.