Articles tagged with 'anchor'

It depends, of course, on where you spend your time sailing and anchoring. In the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, 60-80m is usually more than adequate. However once you transit the Panama Canal on your way across the Pacific, you will definitely want to consider putting on more.

There is more to this seemingly simple task that you would imagine. Like everything in life, you can always learn just enough to get by or learn to do it really well. There's a book I've read on this topic before this charter, The Complete Anchoring Guide, that goes into fantastic detail on everything you wanted to know about this subject however nothing is a good as seeing it for...

I read through this once and found that I really need to read it through many more times. The knowledge, experience and guidance this book provides is something you can't just read about. You have to try it yourself with your yacht. The authors have immense experience in setting all kinds of anchors in all sorts of conditions. Through nice illustrations and photographs they show you...