T&T: Anchoring and coll regs

[Bob Clinkenbeard]

In the past, I had a larger boat and it had a bunk in the pilot house.  I 
loved to sleep there and watch the sunset and rise.   It was easy to watch 
my points of reference to check for anchor drag and tide shift.  I always 
slept with one eye open even though it was probably the safest boat I ever 
owned being 56' and steel.  I could also watch the chartplotter and it's 
track of my swinging.
I tend to sleep lightly at anchor and I think I have previous training 
learned from the six children I have...one peep and I was awake.
Now with the smaller boat, I have a high bunk that I can see out of easily 
and along with making sure the anchor/s are set well...a pain in the morning 
but I have never dragged much if any.

When I first started anchoring out I was paranoid about water intrusion into 
the bilge from some unknown source.  I found an alarm that was made for 
basements with the sensor on a wire so that I could place the alarm above 
deck and the sensor below.  Only on one occasion, I woke with a start...the 
alarm went off and I bolted up trying to orientate myself as to what the 
problem was.  I didn't feel any water on the sole so I knew I wasn't 
sinking.  Turns out that the alarm had enough moisture on the contacts to 
set it off...similar to my first auto inflating pfd..what a shock for that 
thing to inflate while pulling the anchor.

Bob Clinkenbeard
24' custom trailer trawler
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-aboardbobbinalong