I was buddy boating with MollyMoo and was expecting to start the trip between 20 and 11:30. in actual fact I received a message saying that they were leaving about 9ish. I quickly got ready and raised the anchor about 5 or 20 minutes behind them. the anchor was very well stuck in Vliho Bay and needed three attempts of increasing firmness of driving over the anchor to get it to pop out. There was very little wind and we motored, MollyMoo about half a mile ahead of me, across to Pogonia. On arrival MollyMoo dropped anchor quite close to the rocks marked on the charts and I came in next to them. yu could clearly see the bottom and there were patches of sand but a lot of seagrass. Judith on MollyMoo pointed out some sand to me but it looked quite shallow on the charts where she was pointing. I dropped the anchor once on some sand and dead seagrass but it didn't bite. I moved and tried again, and the anchor failed to hold a second time, but on this occasion when it came up it was so full of seagrass that I couldn't see the anchor at all. I removed some, dropped the anchor back into the sea, motored to a third location, pulled the anchor up again, cleared it by lying on my belly on the deck, and dropped the anchor again. This time it bit. I anchored in about 7m and put out a similar amount of chain to MollyMoo - about 35m.
The engine behaved itself on the trip over but the oil pressure light flickered when I was nearly there despite the pressure being at its usual approximately 10ish psi. I increased the revs a bit and the flickering stopped but came back on some time later. When manoeuvring round the anchorage it was flickering constantly unless the engine was taken out of gear. This is something to keep an eye on.

Vliho Bay to Pogonia

Crew: 1

Crew Logs

Comments (0)