We had strong winds that shifted to the South with rain just before dark. There are so many boats here that with the boats dragging anchor, boats on moorings tangling with anchored boats, and boats still arriving that it was very stressful. We pulled up about 25 ft of chain to give us a little more room to the stern with a boat on a mooring. A boat next to us drug and picked up and moved and a German boat drug and then came back and tried to anchor on us. I went to the bow and had a discussion with the skipper - he does not like my anchor float - I love it - he moved away.
Several days ago I posted "Anchoring 101" well it happened again last night. On the radio - a woman on an American boat was complaining about the boats that are on moorings in the "anchor field". Yes, you read it
right - how can these people take a mooring in an anchor field and interfere with the boats in the anchorage.
Common sense says that a boat that is going to anchor should stay clear of moorings period. Irregardless of whether or not the mooring is official or not. Cruising guides mention this, common sense tell you to, what am I missing?
Anyway:
We have 4 strings of multicolor lights on the top lifeline so we ran those for several hours and things settled down and we started dinner and had a nice relaxing evening. We started watching CSI Season 11 and I am trying to finish a library book that we checked out for our Kindles.
Today we are headed ashore to do a Brunch with some friends at Green Boley's and then will walk over to The Firefly Plantation for a swim and Christmas Dinner.
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