Fitting a Bruce Claw anchor to a 26X bow plate

[DaveB]

Bahamian Moor is great for tide flow restrictive tight anchorages, keeps your boat in almost the same location as a mooring will.
I do this when in a crowded anchorage were others are doing same or just outside the Mooring field were the swing of boat is much less in wind and current, or even in shallow areas I need a much less radius swing.
Bad thing is if left unintended it can wrap rodes to a wrap twist, so ck daily.
Also Cheak what others have for scope around you,they may bump you at 3 am in morning.
Dave


( I can also see us using a Bahamian Mooring some in Florida and that means two anchors down that have to come up.
Sum)

[SkiDeep2001]

Bahamian Moor is great for tide flow restrictive tight anchorages, keeps your boat in almost the same location as a mooring will.
I do this when in a crowded anchorage were others are doing same or just outside the Mooring field were the swing of boat is much less in wind and current, or even in shallow areas I need a much less radius swing.
Bad thing is if left unintended it can wrap rodes to a wrap twist, so ck daily.
Also Cheak what others have for scope around you,they may bump you at 3 am in morning.
Dave


( I can also see us using a Bahamian Mooring some in Florida and that means two anchors down that have to come up.
Sum)

I had never heard of a Bahamian Moor, I thought the Moors were in Scotland. Anyway, here is a link that I found while researching a Bahamian Moor. http://books.google.com/books?id=0KmF86 ... or&f=false May need to use it someday so thanks for the info Dave.Rob

[Catigale]

Bahama Mooring - noun - definition - a way to go through anchors twice as fast...

[SkiDeep2001]

Bahama Mooring - noun - definition - a way to go through anchors twice as fast...

How does it cause you to go through anchors Rob

[Catigale]

Easy - (this is an urban legend, but its so good its worth the read....)


VHF transcript

S/V: Bermuda Charters, Bermuda Charters, Bermuda Charters this is sailing vessel PartyBarge over

Charter: Go ahead Bermuda Charters

SV: Switch to 68 please

Charter: 68, wilco

SV : Bermuda Charters this is Partybarge - we are in need of another anchor, over.

Charter: Copy that PartyBarge...you should have two spares on board in the forward locker, over

SV: We found those Bermuda, but its our fourth night out??

Charter.....(redacted)

[DaveB]

Rob, anytime you see duel rodes from the bow in a cruiser, they are most likley doing a Bahimian Moor or just two anchors set at bow.
Bahimian Moors are used all the time in The Carribean, Bahamas and US.(I use it thousands of times thruout all the Carribean, Bahamas and the US East Coast from Cape Cod Ma. down to the Keys and West Coast of Florida)
Use it when you want to swing your boat due to current, wind within almost your own boat length. This includes anchoring off a small area outside of Intercoastal waterway, anchorages such as Edgertown, Marthards Vinyard, Nantucket,Harbor were boats are on moorings and many other areas thruout .You want to swing whithin your boat length.(done outside the Mooring area were you can Anchor)
Have plenty of Rode if you need to adjust or if you need to detach one anchor on a bouy to pick up latter (Very rare to do this).
If wind clocks around 90 degrees at more than 30 knots you may need to loosen one or both a little, this will produce a wide Y duel anchor system and anchors will adjust to this.
This is how I do it. Anchor leaving yourself a 5-1 scope on bow, fall back letting out scope another 5-1 scope for your stearn anchor, than pull up your bow anchor rode to the 5-1 scope . Another way is just anchor and dingy the stearn anchor for set. Both Bow and Stern rodes are cleated to bow.
If you cleat the stearn anchor to a Stearn cleat you have no dirrecting to allow the boat to swing to current and wind.
I never lost a anchor or Rode 40 years anchoring this way.
Dave

I had never heard of a Bahamian Moor, I thought the Moors were in Scotland. Anyway, here is a link that I found while researching a Bahamian Moor. http://books.google.com/books?id=0KmF86 ... or&f=false May need to use it someday so thanks for the info Dave.Rob [/quote]

[Sumner]

.....If you cleat the Stearn anchor to a Stearn cleat you have no dirrecting to allow the boat to swing to current and wind............Dave

Dave good description of how to anchor and you are entirely right about using a stern line.

We started........



.....using a bow anchor and then pulling the boat almost to shore with a.......



........ shore line attached to the stern (the above picture shows also the trip line going to the bridle so you don't have to go back ashore to release the shore line).

The problem with being attached to the shore (or another anchor at the stern) and an anchor at the bow is that the boat won't swing on a wind shift. If the wind comes in from the side while anchored (think middle of the night) you will get a tremendous pull on the rodes and the anchor itself and be in a bad situation.

Tied up like this at Lake Powell is what pulled .....



...the large rock down and ended up with me being hurt.....

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner ... ll-09.html

In the future if I run a shore line I'll also attach it to the bow, so the boat can swing and is what we ended up doing during the bad day at Lake Powell above. You would end up similar to a Bahamian Moor except instead of using two anchors you would be using one anchor and one shore line. As Dave mentioned you still need enough slack in the lines so that the boat can swing over them. We didn't when we changed the lines at Lake Powell and ended up with a.....

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner ... ll-09.html

...different problem since the boat was trapped on one side of the lines. It couldn't be helped as we were too close to solid rock to let out more line. Hopefully we will never again find ourselves anchored (tied to shore) in such a bad location in such bad conditions. Hopefully we are learning .

c ya and don't make some of the dumb mistakes we have,

Sum

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