Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 29, 2003 at 00:09:59 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: We Didn't Mean To...Drag the anchor posted by Alex Forbes on July 28, 2003 at 22:42:22:
Your point about the chain perhaps fouling the exposed fluke is a very good one.
Thinking of the topography of Harwich we can assume that Jim anchored on the Shelf (a safe spot from the merchant shipping point of view, being shallow, but not a good anchorage really, too "bouncy") because that was where the wind died. I've anchored there myself in a sudden sea fog, but not otherwise.