Fast sail, slow anchoring

Chris Jacobs

Sigh. Fabulous fabulous champagne sailing upwind back to Fiskardo. Amazing. We arrived and found a perfect spot along the north shore. Our initial anchor and line to shore was great, but as we tried to get the second line secured to a tree ( 🤫 😬 🌳) the anchor slipped. Here began the troubles. We had a few attempts resetting the anchor, leaving becca with the secured lines on the shore. Very patient woman! On our 2nd attempt we crossed anchors with our neighbour’s chain 🤦‍♀️ The plan (hatched collectively by everyone in Fiskardo) was to get a piece of rope under their chain to lift it as we put our anchor back down. Whilst waiting for the rope, a moment of madness led me to trying by hand and I got my finger stuck between anchor and chain. Fortunately I escaped in time with just a bruised bloody mess and stained shorts. Absolute idiot. On our last attempt, our super yacht neighbour instructed us in and everything held perfectly. Here’s how he told us to do it: 1. Drop the anchor 3 boat lengths out 2. Reverse and Keep dropping it 3. Stop just before the desired spot 4. Take the lines to shore then take in the slack 5. Let out a bit more anchor if needed and re-tighten the lines 6. Pull up on the anchor to tighten it 7. Have a beer with a full hand of fingers Having said all this - our spot is incredible. Turquoise water behind us, a view over Fiskardo in front of us. Kevin’s got a big night out tonight! 💃

Becca

We then returned to the spot we chose in Fiskardo. It took us a few attempts to get the anchor and long lines right. The new method is to put chain straight down, reverse and keep letting it out, get a line on, tighten this up at the back then pull the chain up at the front to make everything super tight. We enjoyed an amazing meal at Panamos restaurant to end the evening 👌🏼