How We Use Our Anchor and Ground Tackle
Getting to grips with your anchor and ground tackle is crucial to successful cruising.
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We killed our engine dead
What would you do if you were on a sailboat in a deep lagoon dotted with reefs and your engine stopped dead?
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Anchoring with the charts, depth and weather against you
We love Sulawesi, but it’s not easy finding somewhere safe to anchor when the water depth rises from 1.5km to 7m in seconds.
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We Made It To Indonesia, but…
Boat maintenance rumbled on, Jamie grumbled on. The fridge failed, and B&G is really rubbish. Then 35kts of wind and breaking waves in the dark had two boats dragging anchor and shooting off into the night.
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Six things YOU do WRONG on a boat
In our most intimate insight yet into life aboard SY Esper, we undergo self-therapy and get some irritations off our chest.
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Living with lightning at anchor
Living with thunder and lightning at anchor is something you get used to in the tropics. But this was the loudest thunderclap we’ve ever heard in SE Asia!
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We dragged a Rocna anchor
We dragged a Rocna anchor! Yes, for only the second time in 14 years our sturdy and reliable anchor let us down. But only slightly. In near gale winds over three days at anchor, we stayed up for 24 hours
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HOW TO ANCHOR: SIX STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL ANCHORING
These are our six steps to effective and efficient anchoring, learned through practical experience over the 12 years we have been anchoring in all kinds of conditions from Turkey to Thailand. This guide is aimed at beginners and those wishing to gain confidence in anchoring.
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We bought a new anchor
We went on a little shopping trip to Phuket just to demonstrate how easy it is to spend money on a boat with little to show for it. But stumbling across a bargain Fortress anchor was too difficult to resist.
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Don’t Be A Wanchor – Anchoring Etiquette And Seamanship
A new word for an age-old problem: people who anchor right next to you in a bay three miles wide. No excuse for it, it comes down to lack of etiquette and politeness.
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The Accident Part 2
…we received an unexpected call from the officer in charge, who invited Jamie to meet the skipper of the barge that rammed us. So he went back with Alica, leaving Liz and Millie-the-cat to guard Esper. After five cups of coffee Wat the translator arrived…
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Sailors Interviews #07 | Liz Cleere
If you would like to know which is Liz’s favourite anchorage, what superpower she has always wanted to have and where she would like to be right now, you’ll need to catch the video…
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FTB Sailing Log #09 | Culture shocks and sliced fishing lines – Ko Rok to Phi Phi
We make it to the southern entrance of Phiphi and are horrified to find this once peaceful anchorage packed with dive boats, long tails, day trippers, super yachts, hundreds of private mooring buoys and not forgetting mini booze cruises (cut to bob’s booze cruise).
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FTB Sailing Interview #06 | Jia of PSS Shipyard | Thailand
This is a new one for us, a sailing interview with a non-sailor! In actual fact Jia, manager of PSS Shipyard, does own his own (motor) boat but he rarely gets the chance to go out in it.
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Leaving Langkawi – Esper’s First Sail + Interior Shots
Of course this isn’t Esper’s first sail per se, but this is the first time we’ve shaken out the sails since the refit. There’s performing planes, fishing nets… and a before-and-after montage of Esper’s interior.
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