An anchoring nightmare while sailing alone | Ep 175
Sailing single handed means that if something goes wrong you are on your own. So, I tend to be careful.
However, there are occasions when luck is against you and you end up in a situation that's going to take a lot to get out of.
This is what happened to me last week. Leaving an anchorage at dawn I was faced with a 200lb lump of metal completely tangled in my chain. The anchorage was packed, I was drifting, and I knew as soon as the sun was properly up I would be getting 20 knots of wind.
The water in the anchorage was murky so it was very difficult to work. In short, a bit of a nightmare.
This is the story of a day that starts off very very badly and an overnight passage that's a bit special.
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