Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 05, 2003 at 10:49:41 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Anchoring posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 04, 2003 at 16:16:54:
I never thought about the speed with which the "Goblin"'s anchor and chain are retrieved! Good point!
That reminds me of a silly but true story, twenty years ago a British VLCC was laid up in Greece and two friends were shipkeeping. The port anchor and chain had been lost, a la Goblin, when a local squad had shifted her in layup, and the Salvage Association surveyor pronounced it gone for ever. They lowered a boat and dragged for it with a grapnel made out of a dining room chair, of the steel tube and plastic seat variety). They found the chain, got a line on it and got it and the anchor back aboard, (which was quite an exercise, on a laid up supertanker with no power!) When asked why they had gone to such trouble they replied that the honour of the British merchant marine required it!
I am at the opposite pole of CQR-enthusiasm since both the bower and the kedge (lashed on the foredeck with the warp stopped down to the shank - I have had lots of practice at going aground!) are CQR's!
Getting back to the point, does Nancy/Goblin have a windlass? I cannot remember.