T&T: Anchoring and anchor watch

[Randy Pickelmann]

This has been an interesting thread.

I use my chartplotter to mark my anchorage locations.  I typically turn on the
tracking and monitor it for a while.  I sometimes turn on the radar and "ping"
nearby objects and/or boats.

But my all time favorite is simply to use a hand bearing compass and take a
couple of bearings off conspicuous objects on the shoreline.  I write the
bearings down in the logbook or on the whiteboard I keep up in the wheelhouse
(you have a whiteboard, don't you?).  I can compare the bearings I take later
in the day and before I go to bed.  This also makes Cindy, the anchor alarm,
happy.  Simple is good.

Regards,
Randy Pickelmann
hard aground in Clearwater
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lying in New Bern
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