T&T: Anchoring and coll regs

[Brent Trathen]

I normally keep watch the first few hours to make sure I have set the anchor
but after that do not at night (there are just two of us).  But....there
have been more than a few nights the wind has started blowing and boats
around me were dragging (me only once in Pirates Cove in BC) I sat up most
of the night with a pot of coffee and a flashlight.  The wife slept right
through it all even with people blowing horns and screaming "your dragging"
etc.  I have been hit three times in 30 years by boats dragging there
anchor.  This is in the San Juan's and the Gulf Islands and farther north.

Brent
Willard 30





A question.  When you are anchoring out do you normally keep watch as
required by the coll regs or do you just tuck in for the night and hope
for the best?